Kumquat, Jeff Strand
Kumquat, Jeff Strand
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Kumquat

Author: Jeff Strand

Narrator: Adam Verner

Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/07/2017

Categories: Fiction, Humorous


Synopsis

Thirty-five-year-old introvert Todd Bryan hasn't really done much with his life, and he's okay with that. Until, at a painfully bad film festival, he meets Amy Husk. She's attractive. She's funny. She's quirky. And . . . she has an inoperable brain aneurysm and not much time to live. She may not even make it to the long-awaited final episode of Exit Red, the Greatest Show Ever.

She convinces him that they should do something crazy and frivolous. And suddenly Todd, a guy who doesn't do spontaneity, is on an insane road trip from Florida to Rhode Island with a woman he barely knows, just to visit a really cool hot dog place.

Many things will go wrong. But, hey, many things will go right, too. There's a hook-handed hitchhiker and some property destruction. Maybe some sex. A kumquat will probably be relevant at some point, although not during the sex (if there is any).

A laugh-out-loud comedy, a touching love story, and a cross-country adventure, Kumquat is a story about making the most out of the time you've got.

About Jeff Strand

Jeff Strand's bio was funnier when he talked about losing the Bram Stoker Award four times, but he's now a Bram Stoker Award winner!

His novels are usually classified as horror, but they're really all over the place, almost always with a great big dose of humor. He's written five young adult novels that all fall into the "really goofy comedy" category.

Several of his books are in development as motion pictures, and he's mostly not allowed to blab any details, which he finds maddening.

He currently lives in sunny, warm Duluth, Minnesota.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mort on April 03, 2019

Okay, Jeff, let's cut the bullshit right now... I don't do Romantic Comedies. I don't do optimistic, uplifting, heartfelt, tender and all that other stuff that warms the cockles of our hearts. I don't do nice guys get the girl. I don't do love stories. And you throw this SWEET NOVEMBER type story my w......more

Goodreads review by Gregor on July 01, 2014

I don't know that I've ever read a romantic comedy before. Yet, that's what this is. If someone had told me that I might one day like such a thing, I'd have said that it was possible but doubtful. I don't read romance. I don't much care for romcoms on film. I'm pretty picky about comedies, especially......more