Three characters struggle with loneliness, drugs, loss, and hope in this new novel by author E. Mitchel Brown. As they experience isolation in their own separate ways and for their own separate reasons, they search for a way to conquer solitude and survive in a world increasingly camouflaged by modern connections.
How to Be Alone is a love story, a break up story, and a quiet, daily struggle in a world upturned, sometimes suddenly, by cancer, depression, and abandonment.
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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