Cover of The sky below

Book 2009

The sky below

3 readers

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Published
2009
  • Life change events
  • Gay men
  • Fiction
  • New York Times reviewed
  • New york (state), fiction
  • Artists, fiction
  • Fiction, general
  • Fiction, psychological

Working as an obituary writer at a failing newspaper in lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11, thirty-seven-year-old Gabriel Callahan has a halfhearted approach to life, until a brush with his own mortality sends him to Mexico on a quest to put himself back together and transform his life.