Night Work

by Christopher Gutiérrez

Seven years and more than 1,000 dates who turned into friends, enemies, girlfriends, adversaries, and allies.

Christopher Gutierrez journeys through the crushing breakdown that initiated a disturbing spiral of online dating, the ugly corners of an abused heart desperate for answers, and the slow crawl back to a healthy life.

His story is heartbreaking, ugly, illuminating, tragic, genuine, and undeniably compelling. Readers will keep a safe distance from the emotional car crash that’s so appalling and sincere, it’s impossible to look away. Fascinating and objectionable, Gutierrez details a twisted and relatable story of redemption. Spanning three books and 90 stories, the compilation is a pilgrimage into the depths of sexuality, an expedition to understand healthy behaviors, and a long arduous march ending at loving what we see in the mirror.

300 pages, 92 stories – compiling all of 4 AM Friends, The Direction Of Home, and 20 more unpublished stories. Includes new introductions, editing, and stories deemed “too scandalous” to previously release.

283 pages, Paperback

Published August 26, 2016

About the author

In the same fashion Do-It-Yourself punk bands have built their fan base for the past 30 years, Chicago author Christopher Gutiérrez has carved his own niche into the literary world relying on that same aesthetic. In the span of three short years, Gutiérrez has gone from sporadic zine publisher and part-time blogger to full-time writer and public speaker, self-releasing 3 books, a spoken word CD, a live DVD, several mini-books and fanzines all under the umbrella of The Deadxstop Publishing Company.