Functional: A NOVEL

by Jeremy Cooper

Logan puts his career on pause after a mental breakdown at work. Fearfully, he swears off his pharmaceutical vices, meets Nikki, a heroin addict in recovery, at the same time he finds new ways to self-medicate that land him in precarious, albeit humorous, encounters with death. He comes back from medical leave with the firm resolve to succeed in life, and his boss, Miranda, helps him to find confidence in his career and himself; but with all the superficial ways he’s improved his life, his untreated mental state continues to deteriorate. Logan, blinded by his newfound love of bravado and rage, finds himself in destructive situations as he learns to live in harmony with his increasingly hostile brain and an equally hostile co-worker, Thomas, who will test the limits of his fragile sanity. Enter the mind of your average, depraved, chemically imbalanced bean counter in Functional, but do so at your own risk.

222 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 25, 2020

About the author

Jeremy Cooper is a writer and art historian, author of six previous novels and several works of non-fiction, including the standard work on nineteenth century furniture, studies of young British artists in the 1990s, and, in 2019, the British Museum's catalogue of artists' postcards. Early on he appeared in the first twenty-four of BBC's Antiques Roadshow and, in 2018, won
the first Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Ash before Oak.