How to Leave the House Audiobook

Profoundand profoundly sidesplittingBobby Finger The New York Times

Its Natwests last day before he leaves for university and theres only one thing on his mind the deeply embarrassing package he ordered to his housewhich still hasnt arrived He wont leave town without it Any alternative is too distressing to consider

This is the story of twentyfour hours in the life of Natwest and his smalltown odyssey in pursuit of the missing package And yet its also the story of a middleaged dentist who dreams of being a respected artistbut the only thing he can seem to paint is the human mouth And its the story of a tortured imam involved in a quasiromantic entanglement with the local vicar and an octogenerian mourning the death of her secretive husband and a troubled teenager whose nudes have leaked on the internet Its the story of Natwests obnoxious exboyfriend and his classtraitor mother and her childhood boyfriend and the lifechanging secrets he knows about Natwests past

Alternating between Natwests idiosyncratic inner world and the perspectives of the other charactersand dazzling in its energy imagination and originalitythis is an outrageously funny and tenderly moving story about being connected to everyone and everything at all times about love friendship and the lies we tell ourselves about unhappy endings happy endingsand whether anything really is as simple as one or the other