WHAT DOES A MAN THINK ABOUT WHEN HE IS STANDING ON THE EDGE OF HIS OWN LIFE?Not his career. Not his money. Not the house overlooking the ocean or the record breaking bookadvance sitting in his bank account. He thinks about the women. Charlie Forte has everything the world told him to want. A celebrated writing career. A beautifulhome in Los Angeles. A level of success most writers only dream about. And on the mosttriumphant day of his professional life, he makes a quiet, private decision that has nothing to dowith any of it. He is going to kill himself. What follows is not a tragedy. It is something far stranger, darker, and more human than that. A stone garden wall and a darkly comic twist of fate leave Charlie suspended between the life heplanned to abandon and the one he never fully understood. And in that stillness, they comeflooding back. Twenty four women. Each one a chapter of his life he never properly closed. Eachone tied to a song he has never been able to silence. There is the infatuation that burned without ever truly catching. The affair that quietly dismantledhis career. The wife he stayed married to the way a man stays in a city he stopped loving yearsago. And threading through every memory, persistent and unshakeable, there is Sierra. The onethat never fully left. Vincent Panettiere writes with the brutal honesty of a man who has seen enough of the world tostop pretending. Charlie is not easy to love. He is petulant, self aware, darkly funny, andmaddeningly human. His confessions are raw and uncomfortable. His voice pulls you in and doesnot let go. Part literary fiction. Part erotic stream of consciousness. Part cautionary tale for every man whohas ever been undone by the ageless, irresistible siren song of women. EVERY LIFE HAS A SOUNDTRACK. MOST PEOPLE NEVER STOP LONG ENOUGH TO HEAR IT. .
