From Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, comes a poignant and hopeful novel about a widower who takes in a grieving teenager and inspires a magical revival in their small town.

An aspiring feminist and underappreciated housewife embarks on an odyssey to find human decency and goodness --- and her high school English teacher --- in New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quick’s offbeat masterpiece, a quirky ode to love, fate and hair metal.

From the New York Times bestselling author of THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK comes the funny, feel-good story of a young man who, in the aftermath of his mother’s untimely death, forms an unlikely family with three other outsiders.

Pat's God-given mission is to become physically fit and emotionally literate, whereupon God will ensure him a happy ending --- the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. However, no one will talk to him about Nikki, his beloved Philadelphia Eagles keep losing and he’s being pursued by the deeply odd Tiffany.