Barry Ozeroff and The Dying of Mortimer Post
About Barry Ozeroff's Book: The Dying of Mortimer Post : ISBN 978-1-60318-202-7 In the tradition of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner , The Dyting of Mortimer Post is a first-person narrative chronicling the life of a young protagonist through the turbulence of a changing world after he undergoes a life-shattering event. Mortimer Post is the quintessential product of late-'60's middle America. He is a college-bound physics major from a good family, engaged to his high-school sweetheart, and is at the forefront of his version of the American dream. Then, in twelve short minutes, he faces a loss so devastating it marks the end of his living and the beginning of his dying. But as the opening sentence suggests, some deaths take longer than others. Mortimer's takes a lifetime to complete; a lifetime best described not as a series of unfortunate events, but a series of unbearable tragedies. Spanning four of America's most significant decades, The Dying of Mortimer Pos...