/lit/ - Literature

>tfw I want to buy the better translation but the better translation has the worst cover

>cousin wrote a book
>pretty smart and artistically minded guy
>got it published
>I read it
>it's a political thriller
>thought it was an okay read
>he has since *sold* seventeen copies
>know for a fact that most of my extended family bought a copy to encourage him
>that's like twelve people
>his mother told my aunt last month that he is depressed
>tfw he tried to commit suicide two days ago and is in the hospital

This could be any one of you.

>eight and a half inches

The scene that really affected me was Karataev being shot