Two Nurses, Smoking Tots_Gift_Guide it's a pleasant existence

it's a pleasant existence

” —Brad Thor

In Oakland

but then the billionaire makes an irresistible offer

WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD

Two Nurses, Smoking Tots_Gift_Guide it's a pleasant existenceFinalist for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates PrizeA new collection of stories by David Means, a visionary "master of the form" (The Observer). Two nurses meet in the hospital parking lot to share a cigarette. They flirt and imagine a future together. They tell stories of patients lost and patients saved, of the darkest corners of human suffering and the luminous moments that break through, even here, in the shadow of death. In David Meanss virtuosic new