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Adam mansbach is a bestselling novelist, screenwriter, cultural critic, and humorist whose work has been adapted for film and television. The only thing standing between galvan and his team of fellow convicts is an army of threatening, dead virgins. On both sides of the border, girls are going missing and bodies are beginning to surface. California book awardwinning author adam mansbachs profane, affectionate, and radically honest verses perfectly capture the familiar and unspoken tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. Adam mansbach audio books, best sellers, author bio. Adam mansbach born july 1, 1976 is an american author, and has previously been a visiting professor of literature at rutgers universitycamden, with their new voices visiting writers program 20092011. The dead run by adam mansbach available in hardcover and ebook from harper voyager us on september 24, 20 an unnerving. Adam mansbach is the author of the instant new york times bestsellers go the fk to sleep and you have to fking eat, as well as the novels the dead run, rage is back, angry black white boy, and the end of the jews, the winner of the california book award.