Something Happened Heller, Joseph

Joseph Heller's follow-up to Catch-22 is a completely different beast—darker, slower, and utterly mesmerising in its excavation of middle-class American dread. Bob Slocum has a good job, a family, and a creeping sense that everything is falling apart. Heller captures the numbing repetition of corporate life and domestic anxieties with prose that spirals through memory and paranoia. It's bleak, brilliantly observed, and often uncomfortably funny. Not quite the satirical fireworks of his debut, but perhaps even more honest about the quieter ways we come undone. Perfect for readers who appreciate psychological depth and aren't afraid of ambiguity.