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Here's a review in the New York Times SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW
Assisted Living
‘The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving,’ by Jonathan Evison
By JENNIFER GILMORE
“Failure makes me hungry,” Ben Benjamin says in “The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving,” Jonathan Evison’s third novel. Ben responds to defeat with a Mr. Goodbar and a bag of chips, which is just part of what makes his funny and relatable voice the linchpin of this engaging book.
Ben is a broken man who has lost everything. When a freak accident took his children several years earlier — and until the end we aren’t told exactly what happened, other than that Ben was there and it was outrageously hideous — he lost his job as a stay-at-home dad too. The Ben Benjamin we meet now is tentative at love, comically eluding his (continued here)
