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The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
5.0

Another great book from DC. Roger is 43 and works in Staples, and Bethany is 24 and works in Staples. They become freinds when B reads R's diary where he's pretending to be her. So it's kind of epistolary, as they write back and forth, with interjections from DeeDee, Bethany's mother, plus chapters of Roger's novel, Glove Pond. I love Coupland's characters, and the characters invented by his characters are just as much fun. Hopeless but hopeful.