{"id":510,"date":"2012-11-25T14:54:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T19:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2013-04-19T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:53:14","slug":"the-revised-fundamentals-of-caregiving-by-jonathan-evison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/2012\/11\/25\/the-revised-fundamentals-of-caregiving-by-jonathan-evison\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, by Jonathan Evison"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-511\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/revised-fundamentals.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-511\" title=\"revised fundamentals\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/revised-fundamentals-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/revised-fundamentals-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/revised-fundamentals.jpeg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, by Jonathan Evison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ben is unemployed and romantically on the rocks. With few options, he enrolls in a night class called The Fundamentals of Caregiving, where he learns to ply a much-needed trade. He also learns how to keep physical and emotional distance from clients. But one of Ben&#8217;s first clients won&#8217;t let him play by those rules.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor, 19 years old, is in the advanced stages of muscular dystrophy. Other than that, he&#8217;s just a teenager&#8211;fiercely stubborn, sexually frustrated, and with an ax to grind with the world at large.<\/p>\n<p>Trev and Ben develop a close camaraderie, blurring the traditional boundaries between patient and caregiver as they embark on a road trip to visit Trev&#8217;s ailing father. A series of must-see roadside attractions divert them into an impulsive adventure interrupted by one birth, two arrests, a freakish dust storm, and a six-hundred-mile cat-and-mouse pursuit by a mysterious brown Buick Skylark. Bursting with energy, this big-hearted and inspired novel ponders life&#8217;s terrible surprises and the heart&#8217;s uncanny capacity to mend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben is unemployed and romantically on the rocks. With few options, he enrolls in a night class called The Fundamentals of Caregiving, where he learns to ply a much-needed trade. He also learns how to keep physical and emotional distance from clients. But one of Ben&#8217;s first clients won&#8217;t let him play by those rules. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuppa-pulp-selections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}