If you like heroes like Adrian Mole and Bridget Jones, this is the book for you.
Bookseller Dan Mayrock is a sympathetic neurotic consumed by many inner insecurities. On the advice of a psychologist, he began to organise his world into lists, and so he goes through life with a pencil in his hand, constantly cataloguing everything: your concerns, that his wonderful wife Jill would stop loving him, a breakneck pace, who are stretching the family savings thin, I'm terrified of it, that he will fail as the breadwinner, secret panic, by his bigoted female employees, and completely stupid questions from customers.
If you think that the list is completely unusable as a novel form, the author will soon disabuse you of your mistake: After just a few pages, the carefully organized columns begin to form an insanely funny and touching story of the cutest bookseller under the sun who desperately adores his wife, has bankruptcy breathing down his neck, and in his quest to save his soon-to-be-expanding family, is not shy about revealing his highly self-destructive tendencies.
They wrote about the book Twenty-One Truths About Love
I don't understand, as Matthew Dicks proved, to make a story reduced to a list seem so human, but that's what this story is - honest, fragile, comic and deeply human.
Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author
Often moving, occasionally shocking and all the while entertaining, this superbly written work shows the incalculable possibilities of novel writing.
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