Francesca "Frankie" Walsh is thirty-two, brilliant, and barely holding it together in New York's underground comedy circuit.When a terminal brain tumor gives her three months, she stops pretending to plan for a future and starts workshopping the bit.Then she meets Paul Hayes, a once-promising lounge singer with late-stage Parkinson's who can't play guitar anymore but still sings like the world is listening. What starts as an unlikely friendship becomes something heavier, stranger, and inevitably devastating as the clock rapidly runs out on them both.From Jack Chase, author of Made in America, Jokes About Suicide is a sharp, intimate story about timing, company, and the people we find right before the dark. Jack Chase is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and the founder of Abbycat Group & Publishing Brands. He is known for Made in America: or The Tragedy of Billy Castle and Unexpected Absolution of Dean Willis and The Bastard of Taylor's End. He has been regarded for his storytelling range, morally complex characters, and prolific output, releasing twelve books in his first year of publishing.
