Through a series of advice blogs advising a "you" that is clearly the blogger himself, David Estaire-a dilettante, an inhaler of cleaning products, a melancholized brother-employs counterfactual and imperative tenses to describe his travails from San Francisco to Sault Ste. Marie, from suburban fatherhood to Skid Row, from reality show stardom to The Serpent River Penitentiary. These Philip K. Dickian sustains of involuting realities depict the grief...