num_pages: 154
description: Ryan Noman is stuck in a house on a dead end street in a dying city a loveless relationship and a job where the owner challenges his employees to fights in the parking lot. He also has a mystery rash. When Ryans best friend Gus convinces him they need to contaminate the source of the artisanal bottled water facility where they work Ryan goes along with it because hey what else is he going to do? This proves to be another bad choice in an increasingly lengthening list of bad choices in Ryans life. It changes everything leaving both Ryan and Gus transformed. Thus begins Ryans oddly comic stumbling through his dark night of the soul in a book best described as self-help for the helpless.
language: English
title: Failure As a Way of Life
publisher: Atlatl Press