AVAILABLE NOW FOR PREORDER: This is How People Die

Scoot and Hannah are cystic fibrosis patients secluded in a modern sanitarium in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, alive past their expiration dates and unwilling to fade quietly. When Hannah leaves behind a final dare, Scoot follows her far beyond the tyranny of the waiting room, leaping from a Paris museum haunted by George Sand to a Polish cathedral where he steals the heart of Frédéric Chopin, and onward to the edge of Tbilisi, Georgia, pursued by spies, ghosts, and the literary underground. Told in singular, fever-bright prose, This Is How People Die is a mind-bending novel of love, vengeance, and deliverance––an absurd and luminous journey that asks what it means to keep living when mere survival is no longer enough. 

About the author:

Will Cathcart is an American writer, journalist, and war correspondent. A Charleston native and former media advisor to the president of Georgia, he has covered Russia’s wars in Georgia and Ukraine, trailed ISIS fighters through the Pankisi Gorge, documented Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, and chronicled the unsolved killing of a CIA station chief. His work has appeared in CNN, Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast, Air Mail, Literary Hub, Garden & Gun, USA Today, and VICE. A former managing editor of the Georgian Journal, he has also served as senior advisor to a digital diplomacy task force countering Russian propaganda. He has worked with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to raise awareness and funding for research. In television, he has consulted and produced for Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown, National Geographic’s Drugs, Inc., and ITV’s On Assignment. He and his family—along with their cat, Gocha—split their time between Charleston and Tbilisi.