About the Book: Big Ray: A Novel
Big Rays obesity and his mean temper define him, at least to his family. When
Big Ray dies, his son Daniel puts his feelings aside, for a while. Years later,
Daniel attempts to reckon with the enduring, outsized memory of his father. In
this stunning novel a middle-aged man comes to terms with his fathers death -
and with his life. Told in five hundred brief entries, the complexity of this
searing story moves back and forth between the past and the present, between an
abusive childhood and an adult understanding. Shot through with humour and
insight that will