
- 400 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life
About this book
A thoroughly uplifting novel about a neurodivergent young man who unexpectedly builds a community and saves a friend in need by followingāin a way only he canāhis mother's words of wisdom. Joe-Nathan likes the two parts of his name separate, just like dinner and dessert. Mean Charlie at work sometimes calls him Joe-Nuthin. But Joe is far from nothing. Joe is a good friend, good at his job, good at making things and at following rules, and he is learning how to do lots of things by himself.Joe's mother knows there are a million things he isn't yet prepared for. While she helps to guide him every day, she is also writing notebooks of advice for Joe, of all the things she hasn't yet told him about life and things he might forget.By following her advice, Joe's life is about to be more of a surprise than he expects. Because he's about to learn that remarkable things can happen when you leave your comfort zone, and that you can do even the hardest things with a little help from your friends.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Prologue: Entry from the Yellow Book of Advice
- Chapter 1: A Man of No Mean Bones
- Chapter 2: Epitaphs
- Chapter 3: The Rain Could Get to You
- Chapter 4: Imperial Leather
- Chapter 5: A Jigsaw Is Only Ever One Piece
- Chapter 6: I Thought You Would be Next
- Chapter 7: Dinner and Dessert
- Chapter 8: The Last Man on Earth
- Chapter 9: Alive in the Corner of His Eye
- Chapter 10: Assumptions
- Chapter 11: Strange and Rather Lovely
- Chapter 12: Adventures Waiting
- Chapter 13: The World Can Be a Messed-Up Place
- Chapter 14: Lucy
- Chapter 15: New Things Were Not Impossible
- Chapter 16: In the Sauce
- Chapter 17: Understanding the Now; Understanding the Next
- Chapter 18: The Only Part Thatās Easy
- Chapter 19: The Perfect Fucking Friday Night
- Chapter 20: The Box
- Chapter 21: In the Event of My Death
- Chapter 22: Not as Stupid as You Look
- Chapter 23: So Perfectly Like Herself
- Chapter 24: Clear
- Chapter 25: Like a Peach
- Chapter 26: Accidents and Injuries
- Chapter 27: Arnica
- Chapter 28: Am I Helping You?
- Chapter 29: Simple Rules
- Chapter 30: Closure
- Chapter 31: Bodies in Bins
- Chapter 32: A Sofa That Is Outdoors
- Chapter 33: A Good Price
- Chapter 34: The Words Were Good
- Chapter 35: No Negotiation Required
- Chapter 36: Fighting, According to Janet
- Chapter 37: Always More Likely to Be Wrong than Right
- Chapter 38: The Trees Didnāt Worry
- Chapter 39: Under His Skin
- Chapter 40: The Only One Smiling
- Chapter 41: For His Own Good
- Chapter 42: Too Simple
- Chapter 43: The Tiniest Air Punch in the World
- Chapter 44: Not Divisible by Five
- Chapter 45: A Friend Like Me
- Chapter 46: Five Years Old
- Chapter 47: Thump, Thump, Thump
- Chapter 48: Double Negative
- Chapter 49: In Many Ways She Hasnāt
- Chapter 50: Hugo Boss
- Chapter 51: Nowhere to Go Back To
- Chapter 52: How Heād Like to Be Remembered
- Chapter 53: A Favor
- Chapter 54: More Like Sawing
- Chapter 55: A Compromise for Comfort
- Chapter 56: The Next Best Thing
- Chapter 57: Dangerously Numb
- Chapter 58: Plenty of Potential
- Chapter 59: The Sort Whoāll Let You Down
- Chapter 60: Twerk
- Chapter 61: Happy Soul
- Chapter 62: In the Book
- Chapter 63: Quiz Night
- Chapter 64: Tonic
- Chapter 65: Just a Number
- Chapter 66: Touching Fish
- Chapter 67: All Linked
- Chapter 68: Terminally Separate
- Chapter 69: The Apology
- Chapter 70: When My Heart Beats
- Chapter 71: The One Where Charlie Dies
- Chapter 72: Next of Kin
- Chapter 73: The Wrong Option
- Chapter 74: Unspoken Communication
- Chapter 75: The Go-Back
- Chapter 76: To Be in the Book
- Chapter 77: Nobody Knows Where He Goes
- Chapter 78: The Place We Belong
- Chapter 79: The Best Kind of Nuthin
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Reading Group Guide
- About the Author
- Copyright