Bottom Book Club | God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer

Join us for our next book club, where we'll dive into God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas. The Bottom Book Club will gather on June 25th from 6-8pm at Zero/Zero Wine Bar. You can purchase the book in-store, on this event page, or online through Bookshop.org.

About God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer

After a deployment in the Iraq War, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral student and EMS worker, he encounters round the clock friends and family from his past life and would-be future at his job, including contemporaries of his estranged father, a man he knows little about, serving time at Holmesburg prison for the statutory rape of his then-teenage mother. Meanwhile, he and his best friend Ray, a fellow vet, are alternatingly bonding over and struggling with their shared experience and return to civilian life, locked in their own rhythms…