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Floyd Henderson is, by his own admission, 'halved.' After 45 years of marriage, his beloved Marjorie is gone, taken too soon by cancer. With a torrential rain matching the storm of his grief, a dazed Floyd is forced to carry out the next step of their meticulously planned retirement: moving from their cherished countryside farmhouse to a city apartment they had chosen together.
Leaving behind the world they built, Floyd struggles to find his footing in a singular life he never wanted. Wallowing in a fog of bourbon and emotional firestorms, he is determined to disappear amidst his desolate landscape of moving boxes. His only attempt to fill the void is Charlie, a sophisticated kit-built companion. As Floyd throws himself into the project of construction, Charlie quickly becomes his closest confidant-a quirky, stable presence to anchor him during his overwhelming grief.
From the relentlessly cheerful superintendent and the watchful security guard, to his volatile neighbour Richard-an aspiring writer who expresses his frustration by routinely hurling his vintage typewriter into the communal backyard-Floyd is surrounded by a community that refuses to let him disappear.
Floyd In Pieces is a powerful, witty, and moving novel of profound loss, a stubborn man's struggle for independence, and the awkward, messy, and unexpectedly hopeful truth that even when your world is shattered, sometimes the pieces-and the companions you build along the way-find a way to fit together again.