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Hailed as The Awl's 2012 book to foresee, this glorious debut personalities hippie detectives, one city, and an MFA pupil away from home. On a residential Bay Area stop fighting the collision of gentrifier condos and longtime residents, stymied recent MFA grad Philip Kim is sleeping the night away when bullets travel through a window in his apartment building and conclude killing one of is own neighbors. Philip only discovers about the murder the next day, when weary and Googling himself. However when he gets swept up in the research and becomes the target of a more elaborate, violent scheme, he'll learn a lot more than he ever before wished to about his past four-eggs-at-a-time borrowing neighbor, Dolores Rock, aka "The Gray Beaver", and her surprising connections to an underworld only a city like this one could create. Siddhartha "Sid" Finch, a homicide detective bitter about everything (except his gorgeous wife) and his phlegmatic, pock-marked spouse Jim Kim land the truth. Sid and Jim contest after Philip by using a menacing, unknowable SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, fending off militant surfers, vaguely European cafe habitués, and competitive Advanced Creative Writing students as each of them try to figure out just who's triggering trouble in this city they wish to hate. Unique, pulsing with vigor and center, and packed with fierce, fresh terminology, The Dead Do Not Improve confirms Jay Caspian Kang as a true American original, as enthusiastic about surfing and surviving as with the energy of memorable storytelling.
