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I know a woman who is a wizard of pranks.
Sometimes she moved the car just a foot or two.
Sometimes she reparked it across the street.
Whether you believe this is hilarity or metaphysical terrorism will depend on your relationship to street parking.
The boss put it on my friends desk.
(Here, you have it.)
My friend put the jam back in her bosss office, but hidden.
The boss discovered the concealed jam and hid it back in my friends office.
Five months of jam-hiding!
Where does the friends family money come from?
Why is the friends hot Hungarian mom a pathological liar?
And what happened on the cruise ship was it an accident or a suicide?
Its a joy ride in a fancy car.
For example, a Tom Wolfe novel.
Or, it turns out, a Christopher Beha novel.
The more the better.
Frank Doyle is a legendary opinion columnist who is canceled after going on TV drunk and making racist remarks.
Herman Nash is a street preacher warning about the end of the world.
How do these four men intersect?
Why, youll never guess!
Having a book like this on your nightstand replicates the feeling.
Just knowing it awaits you is almost as fun as reading it.
Its often a euphemism for a stew of cloying traits: mannered, twee, self-conscious.
This may be the first novel Ive read that illustrates the other side of the quirky coin.
Its a tale of poison, plants, and academia, with multiple romantic scandals.
Who wouldnt be interested?
Well, I can think of one person.
Midway through the book I Googled it and found a bad review in the New YorkTimes.
I didnt find the complaints convincing or the evidence of badness credible but hey, different strokes.
TheTimesreviewer described the prose style as peacocking but I just think its rather good.
BITE YOUR FISTto keep from guffawing in public when pawing through a novel aboutBad Millennials?
Cavortin darkness withBRAZILIAN HIPSTERS?
Enjoy aHEART-SHREDDINGpolitical thrillerof love and jihad?
Remind yourself thatZINES STILL EXIST?I know because…I wrote one.
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