A National Bestseller Now In Paperback, John shares his hilarious, poignant, searching, and wise coming-of-middle-age tragicomedy
Join us at Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore on Wednesday, June 17 at 6:30 PM when John Kenney comes to the store to present his new paperback edition of I See You’ve Called In Dead. John will be joined by a special guest to be announced and will sign copies of his book after the presentation.
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER · One of NPR’s Book We Love 2025 · A Gotham Book Prize Finalist · An Indie Next & LibraryReads Pick · AudioFiles Earphones Award Winner · Library Journal Audio “Editor’s Picks of the Year” · 2026 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Pick.
Obituary writer Bud Stanley isn’t really living his best life. He’s fallen into a funk after a divorce. (She left him for another man, who, in fairness, was far more interesting.) He’s not doing his job well. He’s given up on dating. And he’s about to be fired for accidentally publishing his own obituary one mildly drunken night (though technically the company can’t legally fire a dead person).
As Bud awaits his fate at work, he does the only logical thing: He goes to the wakes and funerals of total strangers to learn how to live again.
JOHN KENNEY is the New York Times bestselling author of Love Poems for Married People and the novels Talk to Me and Truth in Advertising, which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker and lives in Larchmont, New York.
