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Title: Dear Everybody

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Michael Kimball

Narrator: Mark Boyett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Jonathon Bender had something to say to the world; unfortunately, the world wasn't listening, and didn't start until Jonathon committed suicide. Dear Everybody is his last will and testament: unsent letters addressed to relatives, friends, teachers, classmates, professors, roommates, employers, former girlfriends, his ex-wife, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the state of Michigan, and a weather satellite, just to name a few, alongside the eulogizing reminiscences of his closest acquaintances.

Michael Kimball fills in the story of Jonathon's life through his letters, bringing the reader to laughter and tears in an involving and sympathetically written work of fiction.

Members Reviews:

Haunting and Brilliant

I almost didn't want to finish this book, because I didn't want to let happen what I knew was going to happen -- I cared that much about Jonathon. The passages are sometimes very funny and sometimes terribly sad, and sometimes both at the same time. I breezed through this novel, but the words, images, feelings and people in it have attached themselves to my brain and they walk around with me everywhere I go. The author does an incredible job, giving us just enough glimpses and fragments of Jonathon's life, asking us to stitch those together into a deeper, richer understanding of that life, than if the author laid it all out for us. Almost reminds me of a Seurat painting. I only wish Jonathon could have read this book, because then things might have turned out differently.

I read this in a cabin overlooking the ocean in ...

I read this in a cabin overlooking the ocean in Northern California. It was very enjoyable to read and provided a sensitive insight into the thoughts of a suicidal individual in a unique manner of presentation: letters to all he knew.

Funny and Sad

There's so much pain to this story about a man who committed suicide. Told through a series of short letters he wrote (but never sent) to every member of his family, his teachers, ex-girlfriends, even the Easter Bunny, the novel tracks his whole life from tragic beginning to tragic end. In between there is humor, sadness, and a struggle to survive. I tore through this book in matter of days.

sad,well written

Wish it had been a little longer or had a little more depth. It was interesting to start the beginning of the book knowing the outcome and thinking of comments made from that perspective instead of finding out at the end

Dear Everybody" is first-rating story telling.

Michael Kimball's third book, "Dear Everybody," will kick you hard in the ass! It's about a disturbed weatherman, Jonathon Bender, age 32, who kills himself. I think the jolts in it come from the fact that you can't help but identify with his mental decline. Albert Camus, the author of "The Myth of Sisyphus," and one of Algeria's finest sons, said: "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."

The literary device the author uses to tell this tragic and sometimes funny tale of Jonathon's "short life," works.