Description
The follow-up to 2020’s Jad’s Dad Milo, Bert Gets Hurt continues the saga of narrator Bert Britwell, taking readers deeper into his vividly cuckoo visions and distinctive plans for revenge.
“In Bert Gets Hurt, John Wilmes delivers to readers his own brand of manic clarity: terrifying, hilarious, and fully idiosyncratic. Wilmes is the rare writer that is seriously talented, seriously funny, and yet never self-serious.”
-Alex Higley, Author of True Failure
“Readers of John Wilmes’s first book, Jad’s Dad Milo, were left with a question: What happens to Bert? Wilmes’s follow-up, Bert Gets Hurt, provides a provisional answer. But this story of an aspiring big, beautiful boy who tries, with the help of a fellow prison inmate, a suburban mayor, and a couple of retired cops, to climb the ladder of heaven where vengeance awaits, is continually surprising and insightful. It read like what might happen if Agota Kristof’s The Notebook had been set in twenty-first century Chicagoland.”
-Christian TeBordo, Author of The Apology
Cover design by Nelson Bland
Also available on Amazon.
