I See You've Called in Dead
A Novel

A witty, cleaver story of Bud, who is a 40 something year old, obituary writer. One night feeling sorry for himself, he drinks himself into a stupor and accidentally sends out his own obit. Caught between the living and the dead - literally- his employment system recognizing him as dead, when he is i......more

This.Was.Brilliant. I absolutely loved it. I laughed out loud, and wiped several tears. Not many books can do both to me… but this did. Mr Kenney writes in a similar way to another one of my absolute favorite authors, Mr. Fredrik Backman. Both these authors write in a way that resonates with me. It’......more

4.5-5⭐️ Obituary writer, Bud Stanley, is a man afraid to live. But when he drunkenly pens his obituary one evening, the newspaper that already has him in its crosshairs for poor performance suddenly cannot fire him. After all, you simply cannot fire a dead person. Using this glitch as an opportunity......more

This is one of those books that I’m going to tell people about until they either read it or stop asking me what I’ve read lately. I loved it. I had heard it was funny, and a story about an obituary writer who accidentally publishes his own obituary… I was hopeful that it would be funny enough that I......more

Protagonist Bud Stanley, an obituary writer, is my kind of guy—funny, funny, funny, even as he's so depressed and removed from his life that were he not so funny, you wouldn't want to be anywhere near him. And author John Kenney is my kind of writer—a pro. The story of sad sack Bud, who sabotages his......more