Publisher's Synopsis
Will starts drinking more beer after his wife Joni is killed in a car accident. He has a bath with her the day she dies, but she leaves and drives to the airport for the trip to a conference, and is slammed into by an SUV going the wrong way up the exit, while Will is at home blithely watching a dumb infomercial on TV Will has sex with a few people as he tries to recuperate from the loss of her, and then goes through a series other obsessions which distract him from his grief-astrology, healing stones, yoga. Nothing works, and his friend Vera worries about him. He continues to haul himself through uninteresting work days as a librarian for an advertising agency, but he spends most of his time drinking beer and reminiscing, reliving his intimate connected past with Joni. In the end, Will attempts recovery and redemption in an unusual way.
