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Title: Man Alive!
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Mary Kay Zuravleff
Narrator: Richard M Tamblyn
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-27-17
Publisher: Mary Kay Zuravleff
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:
All it takes is a quarter to change pediatric psychiatrist Dr. Owen Lerner's life. When the coin he's feeding into a parking meter is struck by lightning, Lerner survives...and now all he wants to do is barbecue. What will happen to his patients, who rely on him to make sense of their world? What will happen to his family? The bolt of lightning that lifts Owen Lerner into the air sends his clan into free fall. Mary Kay Zuravleff's Man Alive! is a warmhearted portrait of family-on-family pain rendered with wisdom, generosity, and devastating humor. In the Lerners' household, you will recognize your own. A Washington Post Notable Book.

Members Reviews:
Meaty Metonymy -- Lovely Writing
Expecting to enjoy this novel a great deal, I enjoyed it even more.
As in Kafka's Metamorphosis, an impossible (or in this case improbable) event leads to and inflects all else.
One day, Owen -- a therapist, father, husband, friend of many -- is barbequed by a bolt from the sky and, by some sort of meteorological metonymy, becomes obsessed with barbequed meats and becomes, in other ways, a handful for his family. But, then, perhaps --netting out pluses and minuses -- he has also become a better person.
This is an extraordinarily funny book. At the same time, along the way, modern family themes develop, often in subtle, elliptical, but powerful ways. Among them: sibling and spousal jealously; the power that possessions have over us; the difficulty in deciding how keep children safe while giving them space.
And also along the way: portraits of people we care about and many terrific sentences. My favorite, roughly, "meeting the right cow, he bought half of her" continuing the barbeque theme. And also a sentence in which the distracted father, traumatized and perhaps even divinely selected, is described as losing his family in his "blind spot." That figure made me reassess my certainly that I approach 20/20 vision as to the lives of dear friends and family.
At one moment, there is a Citizen Kane-like revelation as to how the bolt from the blue produced this meaty metamorphosis. It was something that I had not expected and was dropped so softly as to be almost imperceptible.
A wonderful blend of so many things.

Man Alive! is a wonderful book that illuminates and entertains
I will never think of electricity in the same way after reading this marvelous book by Mary Kay Zuravleff.
When Owen Lerner is hit by lightning, the circuitry of his family is altered in ways both horrible and hilarious. Searching to regain the enlightenment he believes he attained when all his body's electric impulses were momentarily surging in unison, Owen veers away from his profession of child psychologist into an all-consuming obsession with back yard grilling. His wife, their twin college-age sons, and high school daughter are all searching for the new normal and their own enlightenment in the wake of Owen's accident.
Zuravleff writes with such precision and compassion--zapping the reader with profound questions and insights into what makes us human as she tells the story of the Lerner family's struggle to figure out how to deal with the aftermath of this life-altering incident. There are laugh-out-loud lines as well as moments that bring tears, and metaphors so startling and so perfect that I wondered why no one had ever thought of them before.