A Pleasant Fiction A Novelistic Memoir

2025 Readers' Favorite Book Award Winner (Fiction-Realistic) Winner of Three Firebird International Book Awards (Most Likely to Make You Cry, Death & Dying, and Best Risk-Taker) His family just died. So why is Calvin obsessing over his dishwasher, his pool, and a thousand other mundane details? If you’ve ever suffered catastrophic loss, you already know — even if you don’t realize that you do. A Pleasant Fiction is a raw, emotionally intimate novelistic memoir about love, memory, and the uneven terrain of grief — where meaning is elusive and closure never comes cleanly. Told in nonlinear fragments, it balances emotional weight with moments of warmth, dark humor, and quiet insight. Along the way, one quiet truth emerges: Forgive them. And forgive yourself.