Walk Aimlessly with Joshua Ferris at BookPeople [Reading Preview]
If you're one of those people who doesn't go to author readings or maybe doesn't even read that many books (no, not you of course...but You) then you could easily remedy that problem with Joshua Ferris. You know, Joshua Ferris - the guy who wrote that debut novel a few years ago that was supposed to be really smart and funny, what was that called?(Then We Came To The End) And now he's got a new book out that's a bit darker but just as smart though not intimidatingly so, what's the name of it? (The Unnamed) And he kind of looks like that other author who is getting more hype than those women authors? (Jonathan Franzen) Yeah, Joshua Ferris.
Joshua Ferris writes books that are easy to get along with. In The Unnamed, the main character has his life in shipshape - a happy marriage and a sort of happy kid (typical teenager, amiright?) and is a powerful partner at a successful law firm in Manhattan. All of this gets thrown off when he begins to suffer from an unnamed disease in which he drops whatever he is doing and just walks without stopping - usually when it's cold outside - and ends up in various parks, barbershops and potato chip delivery trucks. It's a weird problem but - metaphorically - a familiar one when you think about it. But you don't really have to think about it to enjoy the book. Find out if that's the point or not at BookPeople tonight at 7PM.
