Henderson

Two years after his daughter's death, Sean flees his broken marriage and Sydney for a fresh start in the small coal town of Henderson, where he starts a new job as a library manager. But he struggles to adapt, feeling alienated and on a collision course with his new community and his own unresolved grief, battling anger, and loneliness. Ultimately, Henderson is a book about our search for connection.
It's a raw exploration of male grief and of male friendship and about finding hope in unlikely places. Henderson is 78, 000 words long. Readers of A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman may recognise in Sean another grieving, male protagonist who has become isolated after a profound loss, with a new, unfamiliar community forcing him to confront his pain. About a Boy by Nick Hornby has a similar focus on a disconnected male protagonist, while also sharing the blend of dark subject matter with moments of wry humor.