Go Help Yourself - Softcover

Pope, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608012794 ISBN 13: 9781608012794

Publisher: University of New Orleans Press, 2026

Synopsis

Meet Corbin Moore, a twenty-something lapsed writer whose job at a struggling, off-brand spiritualist bookshop in Seattle meshes well with his regimen of smoking cannabis, binge eating, and doom-watching the news. That rut is interrupted by the return of his overbearing mother, Geraldine, a famous self-help guru who’s looking for a guinea pig. Add in the daily deluge of Corbin’s deep-seated insecurities and body dysmorphia, the prospect of reunion with still beloved ex-girlfriend Beth, and nonstop harassment by a murder of near-murderous crows, and you get a person most in need of help―but from whom, and how?

Sharply funny and surprisingly tender, Daniel Pope’s debut asks the question: What if we’re not broken in all the ways the prophets of American self-help say we are? This book is for all the people self-improvement leaves behind.

About this title

About the Author

Daniel Pope is a writer and musician from Seattle. His work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, Gulf Coast Journal, and elsewhere. He currently lives in the UK, where he is a doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608012794
• ISBN 13: 9781608012794
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 317