{"id":1957,"date":"2013-07-08T20:22:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T20:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2015-04-04T15:31:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T15:31:44","slug":"the-39-deaths-of-adam-strand-by-gregory-galloway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand by Gregory Galloway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2006 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/The-39-Deaths-of-Adam-Strand.jpg\" alt=\"The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adam Strand can die; he\u2019s killed himself plenty of times, and in plenty of different ways\u2026\u00a0 He just can\u2019t manage to stay dead.\u00a0 Doctors can\u2019t figure it out, and the people in his town have actually gotten so used to Adam trying to kill himself that it seems to register as more of a nuisance than a shock when someone finds him dead.\u00a0 People basically throw him in the back of their car or truck, schlep him home, and leave him in the care of his parents until he wakes up alive again.\u00a0 The thing I found most interesting is that Adam wasn\u2019t necessarily depressed so much as he just didn\u2019t care enough to think life was worth the bother.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty impressive that Galloway managed to write such a philosophical story without coming off as pretentious.\u00a0 If you\u2019re into dark humor and books that make you think, you should definitely acquaint yourself\u00a0with Adam Strand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Strand can die; he\u2019s killed himself plenty of times, and in plenty of different ways\u2026\u00a0 He just can\u2019t manage to stay dead.\u00a0 Doctors can\u2019t figure it out, and the people in his town have actually gotten so used to Adam trying to kill himself that it seems to register as more of a nuisance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1957\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand by Gregory Galloway<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}