Abbott Awaits
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A quiet tour de force, Chris Bachelder's Abbott Awaits transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, startlingly depicting the intense and poignant challenges of a vulnerable, imaginative father as he lives his everyday American existence.
In Abbott we see a modern-day Sisyphus: he is the exhausted father of a lively two-year old, the ruminative husband of a pregnant insomniac, and the confused owner of a terrified dog. Confronted by a flooded basement, a broken refrigerator, a urine-soaked carpet, and a literal snake in the woodpile, Abbott endures the beauty and hopelessness of each moment, often while contemplating evolutionary history, altruism, or the passage of time.
An expectant father and university teacher on summer break, Abbott tackles the agonizing chores of each day, laboring for peace in his household and struggling to keep his daughter clean and happy, all while staving off a fear of failure as a parent, and even as a human being. As he cleans car seats, forgets to apply sun block, clips his dog's nails, dresses his daughter out of season, and makes unsuccessful furniture-buying trips with his wife, his mind plays out an unrelenting series of paradoxical reflections. Abbott's pensive self-doubt comes to a head one day in late June as he cleans vomited raspberries out of his daughter's car seat and realizes: "The following propositions are both true: (A) Abbott would not, given the opportunity, change one significant element of his life, but (B) Abbott cannot stand his life."
Composed of small moments of domestic wonder and terror, Abbott Awaits is a charming story of misadventure, anxiety, and the everyday battles and triumphs of parenthood.
- ~ ~ ~
- JUNE
- 1 Abbott Visits the Pet Store
- 2 Abbott and the Somersault
- 3 Abbott and the Inoperative Traffic Light
- 4 Abbott ’s Dog
- 5 In Which Abbott is Surprised by Artifice
- 6 Abbott and the Paradox of Personal Growth
- 7 Abbott ’s Dread
- 8 Wonderful Life
- 9 Abbott ’s Imaginary Letter to an Imaginary Nationally Syndicated Childhood and Parenting Expert
- 10 Abbott and the Jacobite Revolts
- 11 Abbott and the Highchair
- 12 Abbott Hogs the Mood
- 13 Abbott Suffers the Pang of Vindication
- 14 In Which Abbott Fails to Complete a Pretty Basic Task
- 15 The Expatriate
- 16 Abbott and the Wrong Tool
- 17 Father ’s Day
- 18 All Observation, Darwin Noted, Must Be For or Against Some View If It Is to Be of Any Service
- 19 Abbott ’s Mind
- 20 Malaise Is for Renters
- 21 Abbott and the Longest Day of the Year
- 22 The Abbott Hubcap Index (AHI)
- 23 Abbott RSVPs
- 24 Abbott Goes In
- 25 Abbott and the Antique Tractor
- 26 Abbott and the Families of Trapped Miners
- 27 The Labors of Abbott
- 28 Abbott the Activist
- 29 Abbott Takes the Garbage Out
- 30 Abbott and the Bowl-Shaped Field
- JULY
- 1 Abbott Bumps His Head on the Glass Ceiling of the Capitalist Imagination
- 2 Abbott and the Disturbing Images
- 3 Abbott and the Terrible Persistence of Romantic Thought
- 4 Abbott Celebrates the Birth of His Nation
- 5 In Which the Celebration Continues Deep into the Night
- 6 The Heating and Cooling Specialist ’s Tale
- 7 In Which Abbott Is Linked to Fetal Research In New Zealand
- 8 Abbott Recoils from The Natural Order of Things
- 9 Abbott Glimpses, As If from a Distance
- 10 The Broken Heart It Kens
- 11 Abbott and the Clenched Jaw
- 12 Abbott Discovers an Idiom in His Yard
- 13 Abbott Thinks, Yet Again, the Unthinkable
- 14 Abbott ’s Imaginary Burst into Subdisciplinary Prominence
- 15 On the Very Possibility of Kindness
- 16 Abbott and the Mail
- 17 Abbott Adds a Key to the Ring
- 18 Abbott on the Couch
- 19 Abbott and the Sticky Shit All Over the Fucking Steering Wheel Again
- 20 Abbott and the Utopian Community
- 21 In Which Abbott Drives through the Center of a Diamond
- 22 Abbott ’s Cave
- 23 Abbott ’s Folk Remedy
- 24 On Turbulence
- 25 The Obstetrician ’s Tale
- 26 Abbott and the Oversized Load
- 27 In Which Abbott Sits in a Parked Car for Quite a While
- 28 Abbott and the Vexing Claims of Purity
- 29 Abbott and the Infestation
- 30 On Conservation
- 31 The Brave Simplicity of Truth
- AUGUST
- 1 Abbott and the Clogged Main
- 2 In Which There Are no Hard Feelings
- 3 Abbott and the Good News First
- 4 Abbott at the Edge of His Seat
- 5 Abbott ’s Set Point
- 6 Abbott near the Doorway
- 7 Abbott and the Visiting Nurse
- 8 Abbott Concedes
- 9 Discretion is the Better Part of Discreteness
- 10 Abbott ’s Reminder
- 11 Abbott ’s Inadvertent Research on Prepositions
- 12 In Which a Gorilla Appears
- 13 Abbott Makes a Move
- 14 Abbott, Pierced by the Subjunctive
- 15 Abbott and the Case of the Mysterious Thing in the Driveway
- 16 Abbott and the Online Questionnaire
- 17 In Which Abbott and His Wife Are Unafraid
- 18 Abbott and the Irregular Past Tense
- 19 In Which Abbott Stays Clean
- 20 Abbott Improves
- 21 Abbott Visits the Coffee Shop
- 22 Abbott ’s Supporting Role
- 23 On Dormancy
- 24 Abbott Stumbles toward a Theory of Use
- 25 Abbott and the Parable of the Giraffe
- 26 On Containment
- 27 Abbott and the Small Black Spot
- 28 Abbott Looks out the Window
- 29 Abbott and the Cold Shudder
- 30 Abbott on the Roof
- 31 Abbott Chooses a Side
- ~ ~ ~
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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