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Acclaimed author of The Adults Alison Espach’s short story "In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People" is an at-once hilarious and heart-breaking portrait of a dead woman’s marriage and the Volvo that stood in the middle of it all.

If you knew you were going to die in two years, would you still have gone with the Volvo? So begins the first question of this interview between the recently deceased Linda and her Volvo’s Market Research representative. Over the course of the rest of the interview, listen in and roll down your window into not only a woman’s marriage but a psyche. This brilliantly woven tale shines a light on our collective idiosyncrasies, neuroses, and desires. In the tradition of Sally Rooney and Maria Semple, Alison Espach threads the needle between humor and devastation and emerges a master of observational satire and millennial voice.

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A short story- insightful and very thought provoking- excellent.
Volvo- boxy but safe and suburbia vs living and passion

New sort of Tales of the unexpected

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Such great conversations, I love how the researches keeps trying to get the conversation back on track

Brilliant Short stories

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Stumbled across this audio story by mistake and it just really funny I think it's anyway really good I wish there was more of them looking forward to listening to the other.

Thank you 🙂

Excellent

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This book is number one in a series of three. It's good but not as good as number two (Bounty).
Still, it's thought provoking, kind of freeing & enjoyable enough.

Not as good as Bounty.

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Not my usual genre, but this is both an interesting and moving exploration of a life told from the perspective of the deceased. Well-performed by the narrators.

Interesting short story

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