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Such Good Work

A Novel

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Such Good Work

By: Johannes Lichtman
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
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A timely and provocative debut novel that Rivka Galchen calls “wisely comic and tremendously moving”, about a creative writing teacher whose efforts to stay sober land him in Malmö, Sweden, where drugs are scarce but the refugee crisis forces a very different kind of reckoning.

Jonas Anderson might be an excellent teacher if he weren’t addicted to drugs. Instead, at age 28, he’s been fired from yet another creative writing position after assigning homework like visit a stranger’s funeral and write about it.

Jonas needs to do something drastic and, as a dual American-Swedish citizen, he knows Sweden is an easy place to be a graduate student and a difficult place to be a drug addict. The year is 2015 when he arrives in Malmö, a city trying to cope with the arrival of tens of thousands of Middle Eastern refugees. Driven by an existential need to “do good”, Jonas volunteers with an organization that teaches Swedish to the desperate and idling young refugees. But one young man, Aziz, will force Jonas to question whether “doing good” can actually help another person.

Such Good Work is a darkly funny work of autofiction that asks us to consider how one should go about being a good person in our modern world. In his striking debut novel, Johannes Lichtman’s uses pathos and humor to grapple with simple yet necessary questions - Such Good Work begs you to consider the person you are, as well as the person you hope to be.

©2019 Johannes Lichtman (P)2019 Simon & Schuster
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Such a well-written portrait of the struggle to find connection and meaning post-addiction. The awkwardness, the miscues, the profound self-consciousness that we’ve all experienced is so beautifully and subtly captured. It’s a quiet, witty and poignant read. I will definitely listen again.

A Quiet Gem

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But seriously, a friend recommended and I powered into it. Subtle humor in the right places, relatable in an uncomfortable but enjoyable way.

Such good book

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Listened to Chapters 1 and 2, skipped to last Chapter and felt that I didn’t miss much.

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