Die Closer To Me - David Kuhnlein

David Kuhnlein's debut novella-in-stories Die Closer to Me follows Jo as she cares for her mother on planet Süskind - Earth's failed disability experiment. Along the way we meet a suicidal construction worker, a waitress who secretly eats her tip money, a jaded poet, a militant monk named Bhikkhu Brendan Fraser, and a small blue hypnotist named Bath.