Jonathan Evison
Author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
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Works by Jonathan Evison
A Small World 1 copy
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My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Contributor — 562 copies
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- Canonical name
- Evison, Jonathan
- Birthdate
- 1968
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- San Jose, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Missoula, Montana, USA - Occupations
- novelist
writer
rabbit raiser
radio host
taster (beer)
sorter (tomatoes) (show all 8)
telemarketer
editor (script doctor) - Agent
- Mollie Glick
- Short biography
- His work had appeared in the Portland Review, Orchid, Knock, Opium, Quick Fiction, and other journals. All About Lulu is his first novel.
Jonathan's a happy guy. He like rabbits. He has eight of them... all cute little f*****s with names like Javier and Little Turkey. He lives out in the woods on an island in Puget Sound, where he spends the majority of his time writing and sitting in the bathtub. He makes all his business calls from the bathtub. People are always asking him: "What's that echo? Are you in a bus station?" He says: "No, I'm in my office." Pretty cool, huh? He's developing something I call the sweats to pants ratio (SPR), by which success is measured relative to the days one spends in formal versus casual attire (formal being anything with pockets). By this measure, seven days a week in sweats is the pinnacle of success. He's at about five-to-two right now.
As a syndicated talk radio host, his comedy show "Shaken Not Stirred" was nominated for two Peabody Awards. He has received two Silver Microphones, and two Communicators and was frequently nominated for the Soundie Award.
He is the founder and moderator of the FICTION FILES, a forum for literary discussion.
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Jonathan Evison is a new author to me and I intend to read others now.
Never read a book about a 22 year old Lawn Boy, Mike Munoz, hence the title, who lives with his single, overworked divorced three times, mom, divorced. Mike was always looking after his 26 year old developmentally disabled brother Nate, and he was good at it too. Mike is a good kid but has aspirations to be more than a lawn boy. He really wants to be a landscaper, sculpting bushes, etc. and to be creative. He get fired, which is fine with him, since he sort of hated the job, and starts looking for something, anything, really.
Mike is also trying to write a book though he's bad at it but he keeps trying as with jobs. He's sure an optimist in life and keeps going.
I was rooting for him the whole time in everything he did. Then there was Freddy, a big black guy who was a bouncer/security guard where his mother worked and he moved in. He was wonderful with Nate who got out of control a lot due to his developmental disability.
This book was sometimes written in first person, sometimes not.
Mike finally found himself in more ways than one.
Someone called the ending weak, I found it charming and it came full circle from the beginning of the book.… (more)
Never read a book about a 22 year old Lawn Boy, Mike Munoz, hence the title, who lives with his single, overworked divorced three times, mom, divorced. Mike was always looking after his 26 year old developmentally disabled brother Nate, and he was good at it too. Mike is a good kid but has aspirations to be more than a lawn boy. He really wants to be a landscaper, sculpting bushes, etc. and to be creative. He get fired, which is fine with him, since he sort of hated the job, and starts looking for something, anything, really.
Mike is also trying to write a book though he's bad at it but he keeps trying as with jobs. He's sure an optimist in life and keeps going.
I was rooting for him the whole time in everything he did. Then there was Freddy, a big black guy who was a bouncer/security guard where his mother worked and he moved in. He was wonderful with Nate who got out of control a lot due to his developmental disability.
This book was sometimes written in first person, sometimes not.
Mike finally found himself in more ways than one.
Someone called the ending weak, I found it charming and it came full circle from the beginning of the book.… (more)
Audio book. A saga following five families from their move to the new world in hopes of a better world for themselves. They came from Ireland and China. We follow the lives of these immigrants and their descendents to the present day. A long journey about the hardships and wealth some found. Kirkus: A train accident reveals the connections among a host of people across race, class, history, and the country in this ambitious epic.Evison?s seventh novel opens by giving away the climax: Walter, a train operator working his final run for Amtrak, is at the center of a wreck on the way to Seattle. But despite making the worlds-in-collision setup clear early, Evison has still crafted a suspenseful novel, as he shuttles between the train?s riders in 2019 and their forebears in the 1850s. Walter is a descendent of Nora and Finn, Irish twins orphaned in Chicago. Malik, a rising high school basketball star, is a descendent of George, an escaped slave. Jenny, a hard-charging corporate fixer (she supervised Amtrak buyouts that, it?s implied, led to the crash), descends from Wu Chen, a Chinese immigrant who parlayed a small stash of gold into a thriving business. And Laila, escaping her abusive husband, is descended from Luyu, a Miwok woman who?s absorbed White people's condescension or brutality. Bouncing among the characters in brief chapters, Evison gives the story a sprightly, page-turner feel despite the sizable cast he?s assembled. And the story thrives because his eye for the particulars of each character?s life is so sharp: Finn?s work on farms and railroads, Laila?s anxiety over escaping her husband, Malik?s mother?s desperate efforts to make ends meet for her son?s sake. So when their lives do wind up intersecting on the train, Evison?s novel feels less like we?re-all-connected sentimentality than a compassionate vision of a pluralistic country that ought to dignify everybody. Though politics aren?t explicit in the novel, it?s plainly a response to an era that?s created dividing lines across the country. Without being simplistic or wearing rose-colored glasses, Evison suggests a fresh way of recognizing our relationships without melting-pot clich?s.A bighearted, widescreen American tale.… (more)
AGAIN AND AGAIN a new novel by Jonathan Evison is a poignanct and endlessly surprising story. It features a lonely old man either clinging to his delusions or possibly a legitimate anomoly: a thousand year-old man who continues the search for the love he lost so long ago. Great story with a touch of Scheherazade and a touch of enchantment. A bit of a slow start, but I loved the story and would read again.
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Benjamin Benjamin is a wreck of a man. He is in the aftermath of a tragedy, and he has lost his wife, kids, and house. He decides to become a paid caregiver, and, after a few classes, he is hired as the caregiver for a nineteen-year-old boy with muscular dystrophy. He bonds with the boy while sitting at the mall ogling women and saying the different ways they would like to have sex with them. Eventually they go on a road trip seeking redemption.… (more)