John Darnielle is the driving force behind the Mountain Goats, and he wrote a novel last year. We talked about it on hubski at least twice but I can't find the conversation. Several people expressed interest in reading it.
I just now obtained and read it, 200 pages, quick, thoughtful and sad. Exactly like his songs, but in prose. I haven't, but I bet it would be amazing to read while listening to The Sunset Tree.
The protagonist is a man who works as a mail-in RPG game master. The novel is told backwards, chronologically. It's a #thehumancondition sort of book. Any of you end up reading it?