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Books Previously Recommended by David

Everything Matters by JR Currie
In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter? While the voice that has accompanied him since conception appraises his choices, Junior's loved ones emerge with parallel stories--his anxious mother; his brother, a cocaine addict turned pro-baseball phenomenon; his exalted father, whose own mortality summons Junior's best and worst instincts; and Amy, the love of Junior's life and a North Star to his journey through romance and heartbreak, drug-addled despair, and super heroic feats that could save humanity. While our recognizable world is transformed into a bizarre nation at endgame, where government agents conspire in subterranean bunkers, preparing citizens for emigration from a doomed planet, Junior's final triumph confounds all expectation, building to an astonishing and deeply moving resolution. Ron Currie, Jr., gets to the heart of character, and the voices who narrate this uniquely American tour de force leave an indelible, exhilarating impression.

This is Where I Leave You by Jonathon Tropper
I've heard the name, but I've never picked up one of Jonathan Tropper's books until now.
The new novel, This is Where I Leave You, opens with the death of Mort Foxman, a not at all observant New England Jew whose apparent last wish was that his family sit Shiva, the mourning process common to observant Jews to mourn his death. Judd is one of the three brothers in tow here, who has just found out that his wife has been sleeping with his boss for a year. He's narrates most of the horror/hilarity to follow. Paul has issues left over from childhood that tie directly to Judd, and Philip "is the Paul McCartney of our family: better looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead." Wendy is the lone sister, a great character with overtones of Dorothy Parker. READ MORE OF DAVID'S REVIEW HERE

Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
One wonders how many great reviews Dan Chaon has to amass before he breaks into best seller status.

Three connected stories around absence, shifting identities and actual identity theft converge in a thriller like climax, but Chaon has literary chops like few other American authors. His characters are full and entirely human and he writes perfect sentences. Dan Chaon is on my shortlist of favourites and I’ll bail on most anything else to read new work from him.

So Much for That by Lionel Shriver