MAN OVERBOARD!

Patrick "Kick" Kilpatrick hates the ocean. Has always been terrified of it. And now he's in a real pickle.

Drifting alone in the sea after falling (or jumping? He can't remember as the all-inclusive drinks on the cruise he was taking with his extended family were, well, inclusive,) Kick must survive. Breath by breath, hour by hour in the lonely sea.

As the waves crash over him, so too do the thoughts and memories of just how he got there. A Thanksgiving family cruise with an obnoxious brother-in-law he has to bite his lip from screaming at. A father who gives the great Santini a run for his money. And a mother, who, well, already left the family boat so to speak a long time ago. His family may be complicated, and the pains of life may seem unbearable - infuriating enough to jump off a boat - but maybe the will to survive is stronger.

Man Overboard! is an inventive, slyly hilarious, and inspiring novel about what it means to be alive, stay alive and what keeps us going no matter how choppy the waves of life become. Hold on for dear life!

Rooney is the nationally bestselling author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, as well as Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey and From Dust to Stardust. She has won the Ruth Lilly Prize from Poetry magazine and the Adam Morgan Literary Citizen Award from the Chicago Review of Books. Kathleen's criticism can be found in the New York Times, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Brooklyn Rail, Chicago magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and beyond. She lives in Chicago with her spouse, the writer Martin Seay, and teaches English and creative writing at DePaul University.