The Death and Life of August Sweeney

Legendary chef August Sweeney has served his final meal, dying in the middle of service in the very restaurant he built to secure his legacy. When Dr. Maya Zhu, a guarded, intense autopsist, is summoned to investigate, she discovers she must operate under strict conditions Sweeney himself dictated before he died. As she digs deeper into his immense body, everything that can go wrong, does, because August Sweeney isn't about to let a little thing like death stop him from raising hell.

Author: Samuel Ashworth
Publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project
Published: 03/20/2025
Pages: 318
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9781951631413
ISBN10: 1951631412
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Medical
- Fiction | Humorous | Dark Humor

About the Author
Samuel Ashworth has been a bartender, a dancer, and a reporter. He has gutted seafood in the back of Michelin-starred restaurants and assisted with autopsies in a Pittsburgh hospital. His fiction and nonfiction appear in the Washington Post Magazine, Longreads, Eater, Hazlitt, Gawker, the Rumpus, and so on. He is a professor of creative writing at George Washington University, and assistant fiction editor at Barrelhouse Magazine. A native New Yorker, he now lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, DC. He is on Twitter and Bluesky at @samuelashworth.