Bad Questions: A Novel, published by the Washington Writers’ Publishing House and winner of the 2023 WWPH Fiction Prize.
2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist

One of WTOP’s “5 novels by DC-area authors in 2023 to put on your holiday reading list.”

Included in DCTRENDING’s Third Annual Holiday Booklist

Praise for Bad Questions
“Novels that are very funny and truly sad are rare, but Washington metro area writer Len Kruger’s Bad Questions is one.”— Washington City Paper

“Remember adolescence, when life was an alphabet soup of questions? Some goofy, some embarrassing, and some so painful and profound that adults no longer dare to ask them. In Bad Questions, Len Kruger evokes that time perfectly with a story that is funny and deeply moving. I’ll never forget it.”— Corey Flintoff, former foreign correspondent, National Public Radio

“. . . [Kruger] does a remarkable job recreating the time period and capturing the suburban glory of lower Montgomery County, Maryland.”— Washington Independent Review of Books

“. . . hilarious and heart-rending debut . . . a fast moving portrait of life in the 1970s, before Google could answer all life questions . . .”— 730 DC

“Tender and raw, intimate and universal, Len Kruger’s Bad Questions evokes a loss-haunted boyhood in a voice as warm-hearted as it is stark. I love this novel, and so will you: an unforgettable gift from a wonderful writer.”— Joyce Kornblatt, novelist, author of Mother Tongue and The Reason for Wings

“Insightful and poignant, Len Kruger’s writing glitters with keen observations of suburban Maryland in the early ‘70s. An adult’s story seen from a young boy’s point of view, Bad Questions rings with emotional truths that resonate vividly and viscerally today.”—Suzanne Feldman, 2022 WWPH Fiction Award for The Witch Bottle and Other Stories

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