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PRAISE FOR THE SADNESS

“The Sadness is a novel with film noir appeal: gritty and absorbing, with just a touch of glamour. Morally ambiguous siblings Kelly and Max, each compelled by their own obsessions and failures, succumb to the pull of home in order to resolve the crippling events of their pasts. With vivid, measured prose, Benjamin Rybeck delivers his characters from the depths of madness toward a quietly optimistic end, in which they discover something far more important than what they thought they were searching for: each other.”

—CHRIS CANDER, AUTHOR OF WHISPER HOLLOW

“You’ll hear among the many declarations of Benjamin Rybeck’s single-minded protagonist in The Sadness, ‘Film is a matter of life and death… the director has no choice but to make a film to save his or her own life.’ While this sentiment is shared by others, Maxwell Enright delivers it more as personal manifesto, a possessory truth to which you had better listen. Rybeck has created a razor-sharp blade held with unflinching certainty, the kind only possible within the labyrinthian and door-kicking noisy head of a young artist fighting to find a way out.”

—TODD FIELD

“Benjamin Rybeck’s The Sadness is a book full of wisdom about the fumbling, grasping attempts we all make to fill the emptiness inside us, a book that ultimately leaves the reader feeling less alone in the world.”

—JOSHUA FURST, AUTHOR OF THE SABOTAGE CAFE

“With this impressive debut, Benjamin Rybeck perfectly captures what it’s like to be young and lost, unprepared for adult life, and utterly broken by the past. Rybeck has so much to say—about celebrity, cinema, family, and art as both a weapon and a shield—and he says it all with great intelligence and wit.”

—MIKE HARVKEY, AUTHOR OF IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS

“Often humorous, sometimes touching, newcomer Rybeck’s tale of youthful woe portrays a generation full of promise as it runs aground.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“The Sadness is a rapturous, absorbing and wholly original novel that announces Rybeck as a surprising and inventive young writer.”

—KRISTEN RADTKE