Play What's Mine

A hospital stay split his life cleanly into before and after, and he has spent every year since arranging the pieces into some order that makes sense. Play What's Mine follows what came next: years drumming in a band loud enough to matter, a marker taped to a stick because the show didn't stop for anything, and an attempt to enlist that didn't go the way he expected. None of it arrives in order, because that isn't how any of it happened the first time either. This is a memoir told in short, exact sentences, by a writer more interested in what actually happened than in making it sound like anything more than what it was.