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The Sarah Book
Scott McClanahan
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The Sarah Book is Scott McClanahan’s cripplingly honest novel about marriage, parenthood, addiction and the stories that weave together all the elements in-between. Originally published in the US in 2017 by Tyrant Books, Giancarlo DiTrappino’s shelter for new literary works, the book is considered as McClanahan’s defining novel and marks the first of his titles to be published in the UK. His new novel Fights! will be published by Rose Books in July 2026 in the US and by 020-DESK-ZERO in the UK.

Raw, tender, funny, and devastating.

"Scott McClanahan's The Sarah Book is a furious exhalation of love and hurt and hate and tenderness and anger. This is a chronicle of a couple coming together and breaking apart. There is courage in these pages because so much of what McClanahan details is ugly and desperate and raw--everything, food, drink, love, heartbreak, to excess. The writing is so intimate you want to reach into the book to save this man from himself but you can't. That impossibility is what makes this book so memorable, so powerful."

— Roxanne Gay

McClanahan shows us the dents and scrapes and breakdowns of a man trying to be to a husband and father while at the same time sabotaging the very things he loves.  Unnerving but remarkable.” –Willy Vlautin, The Motel Life

Cover Image:
Endless Romance, 2024
© Tomas Harker
Courtesy of The Sunday Painter