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Shannon Webb-Campbell Reviews I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Thom Meuley by thom vernon

thom vernon invites readers to meet sex and death

I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley, thom vernon. Guernica Editions, 2024.

Wildly audacious. Hilarious yet devastating. Punchy and raw. I’ve never read a novel like thom vernon’s I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley. As a novelist, vernon breaks all the rules because he knows them. It’s why the story leaps off the page. This novel begs to be a film, and I shouldn’t be surprised considering vernon’s backstory of being an actor-turned-writer.

Stop! Look! Listen! Emily Pegg's Reading Recommendation

When my friends recommend books, I borrow them from the library—my apartment remains infested with paperbacks despite my efforts to downsize, and books are an expensive vice—but I lasted a whole fifteen minutes into the audiobook of Julia Armfield’s novel Our Wives Under the Sea before I caved and ducked into a bookstore to buy it while out on a walk. It was just that good. 

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