Sorry I Wasn't What You Needed
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Sorry I Wasn't What You Needed

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Price
$11.95
Format
Paperback
Pages
234
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1511840941
Dimensions
5.5 x 0.59 x 8.5 inches
Weight
10.6 ounces

Description

James Bailey is the author of The Greatest Show on Dirt (2012), Nine Bucks a Pound (2014), and Sorry I Wasn't What You Needed (2015). He grew up in Seattle, spent most of the 1990s in North Carolina, and has since settled in Rochester, N.Y., where he lives with his wife and super-hero obsessed son.

Features & Highlights

  • Sporting a nagging conscience and a chip on his shoulder, C.J. Neubauer books a flight home on his girlfriend's credit card to bury his father and try to make sense of what led him to take his own life. All he has to go on is a note that reads, "Sorry I wasn't what you needed."
  • C.J. Neubauer's family was dysfunctional long before his mother walked out. At eight, he was just too young to realize it. Now 32, he has spent his entire adult life estranged from the people who should mean the most to him. But when his father kills himself, C.J. is thrust right back into the multi-fronted battle he escaped upon graduating college. Back in his childhood home, C.J. sifts through his dad's belongings, uncovering one secret after the next, revealing how little he truly understood his parents-and himself.
  • Fans of Jonathan Tropper and Matthew Norman will enjoy this book, which explores the familial bonds that obligate us for life-and beyond.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Wonderful read

Thought it was going to be a quick funny beach read, it had it's funny moments but more depth, heart, warmth. A wonderful short book to read.
4 people found this helpful
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Good book

Good book. Didn’t want to put it down. Sad story. Great characters. Would recommend.
1 people found this helpful
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Not for me

Read and then wondered the whole point . To each their own. Personally was disappointed . Writing was ok but just did not all come together
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Read something else.

Sorry it seems I am the only one who did not like this book.I kept waiting for the story to go somewhere and it really never did.The only reason I finished the book is because I paid for it .But I really had to skip over it quickly because it was too boring. Sorry it just was not my go to book.
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Confronting the Skeletons in the Family Closet.

A satisfying tale pitting a thirty-two-year-old slacker with the skeletons in his family's closet. Fans of Jonathan Tropper and/or Matthew Norman will find this novel both entertaining and rewarding.
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very entertaining and well written

What a great book! James Bailey's third book is not about baseball like his first two. But, Sorry I Wasn't What You Needed is another well written book by this author. I could not put it down. A well written story about CJ and his family.

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