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Maxy Awards "Book of the Year" 2019 #1 Best Seller - Amazon "Fiction Satire" #1 Best Seller - Kindle "Humor and Entertainment" #1 Best Seller - Kindle "Satire" #1 Best Seller - Kindle "Humor" #1 Best Seller - Kindle "Humorous Dark Comedy" RECOMMENDED -xa0"This irreverent romp is full of laugh-out-loud dialogue and a zany plot that ultimately leads with heart. Readers who enjoy family comedies with a touch of irreverence will love Barrett's ensemble cast of misfits." - Michelle Jacobs, US Review of Books "Witty, occasionally crass, and an unqualified delight." - KIRKUS REVIEWS " A master storyteller and humorist, author Joe Barrett confronts contemporary issues of senility, adult diapers and suicide with bizarre, laugh-out-loud humor...xa0I grinned reading page one. I chuckled reading page two. By page three I laughed out loud. This irreverent farce with idiotic characters has a redeeming conclusion." - AuthorsReading.com " An absolutely sensational debut novel filled with dry humor, heartfelt moments, and exceptional characters." - Sublime Book Review Joe Barrett has spent the past twenty-five years as a chief executive of entrepreneurial organizations ranging from private, venture-funded companies to large publicly-listed multinational corporations. He has been a frequent speaker at National Retail Federation conferences and has sat on the boards of several for-profit and non-profit companies. His short fiction has been published in Iconoclast, The Storyteller and The Palo Alto Review. He lives with his wife and two children in New Jersey.
Features & Highlights
- "Funniest book I've ever read." –Tom McCaffrey, bestselling author of
- The Wise Ass
- Is it too much to ask that a managed care facility refund a year's advance payment when your grandfather dies before he can move in?
- Frank Johnson doesn't think so, which is why the thirty-three-year-old now lives in a nursing home, locked in a chess match feud with management that doesn't occupy nearly enough of his time.
- When foster kid Elroy is thrust into his life, Frank decides to turn this forced relationship to his advantage - launching a string of absurd decisions, inappropriate behaviors and unexpected glimpses of tenderness that ultimately turn a New Jersey suburb upside down. A laugh-out-loud celebration of bad choices for good causes,
- Managed Care
- is an offbeat story about three misfits on the social fringes of suburbia and their ridiculous campaign to introduce an unfiltered version of intimacy to their stale, impersonal community. Because, according to Frank, it's probably what Jesus would have wanted.
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- Managed Care
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- Kirkus Reviews
- calls it, "Witty, occasionally crass, and an unqualified delight!"
