You Must Understand This If You Want to Live

“Naive and knowing, banal and apocalyptic, friendly and terrifying, simple and audacious, heartfelt and alien, buzzsawing and fluttering.” – Mark Leidner, Returning The Sword To The Stone

“With You Must Understand This if You Want to Live, Max Lavergne balances the lost art of comedy writing with a brutal and otherworldly satire that can feel like anything from Dr. Strangelove to Vonnegut or Paul Beatty's The Sellout... these stories are deft, precise and clever.” – Max Easton, The Magpie Wing