2. How Does the Novel Portray Male Friendship Compared to Female Friendship?

Join us for a discussion of I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney, a darkly funny novel that begins when an obituary writer opens the paper and discovers his own death, forcing him to confront his life, choices, and what it really means to be alive.
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2. How Does the Novel Portray Male Friendship Compared to Female Friendship?

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In many ways, this novel is an ode to male friendship. Bud himself remarks on the difference between male and female friendship: “Women talked close, staring at each other, close, touched, hugged, said what they felt, said I love you out loud. We sat staring straight ahead, never touching, speaking more in the pauses, and yet still, if you listened closely, said I love you.” (47)

Did you find the depictions of male friendship throughout this novel different from depictions of female friendship you have read? If so, in what ways?
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