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$11.32The Story
Meet Corbin Moore, a twenty-something lapsed writer whose job at a struggling, off-brand spiritualist bookshop in Seattle meshes well with his regimen of smoking cannabis, binge eating, and doom-watching the news. That rut is interrupted by the return of his overbearing mother, Geraldine, a famous self-help guru who's looking for a guinea pig. Add in the daily deluge of Corbin's deep-seated insecurities and body dysmorphia, the prospect of reunion with still beloved ex-girlfriend Beth, and nonstop harassment by a murder of near-murderous crows, and you get a person most in need of help--but from whom, and how?
Sharply funny and surprisingly tender, Daniel Pope's debut asks the question: What if we're not broken in all the ways the prophets of American self-help say we are? This book is for all the people self-improvement leaves behind.
Author: Daniel Pope
Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
Published: 04/03/2026
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.52w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9781608012794
Review Citation(s):
Foreword 05/11/2026
About the Author
Daniel Pope is a writer and musician from Seattle. His work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, Gulf Coast Journal, and elsewhere. He currently lives in the UK, where he is a doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing.
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Meet Corbin Moore, a twenty-something lapsed writer whose job at a struggling, off-brand spiritualist bookshop in Seattle meshes well with his regimen of smoking cannabis, binge eating, and doom-watching the news. That rut is interrupted by the return of his overbearing mother, Geraldine, a famous self-help guru who's looking for a guinea pig. Add in the daily deluge of Corbin's deep-seated insecurities and body dysmorphia, the prospect of reunion with still beloved ex-girlfriend Beth, and nonstop harassment by a murder of near-murderous crows, and you get a person most in need of help--but from whom, and how?
Sharply funny and surprisingly tender, Daniel Pope's debut asks the question: What if we're not broken in all the ways the prophets of American self-help say we are? This book is for all the people self-improvement leaves behind.
Author: Daniel Pope
Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
Published: 04/03/2026
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.52w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9781608012794
Review Citation(s):
Foreword 05/11/2026
About the Author
Daniel Pope is a writer and musician from Seattle. His work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, Gulf Coast Journal, and elsewhere. He currently lives in the UK, where he is a doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing.
