Exit Papers from Paradise

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batting inner voices
battling inner demons
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complacent
dark comedy
daydreams
depression
doctor
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exit papers
family business
fate
feeling trapped
first time novelist
forced into someone else's life
forced into the wrong career
goals
Goth
Goth Princess
inner voices
living someone else's life
murder
Paradise
plumber
plumbing business
plunger
practicing on animals
quality of life
scalpel
stuck in a rut
surgeon
surgery
the detachment between who we are and who we want
the time is now
thirty-something plumber
to be
University of Michigan
unrealized dreams
voice in our head

Product details

  • ISBN 9781459706118
  • Weight: 283g
  • Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Dec 2012
  • Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: CA
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A dark comedy about a young man’s aspirations to be something better than he currently is.

Frustrated 35-year-old plumber Isaac Sullivan believes he has both the intellect and skill to be a surgeon. Forced to take over his father’s plumbing business straight out of high school, Isaac’s had dreams of attending the University of Michigan that fell by the wayside. However, the unfortunate setback didn’t stop him entirely. For the past decade, he has absorbed every medical textbook and journal available to him. For practical experience, Isaac performs surgeries on the wildlife around his house, preparing for the day he attends Michigan.

Yet the years continue to pass and Isaac remains stuck in Paradise, Michigan, as a plumber. That is, until this year, when an event pushes him to apply as an undergraduate for the first time. Exit Papers from Paradise is about the gap between the person we are and the person we desperately want to be.

Liam Card studied writing at the University of Iowa and the University of North Carolina, respectively, graduating with a B.A. in communication studies while on a full track and field scholarship at both universities. A screenwriter, Liam lives in Toronto.

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