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A review by nikkigee81
The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
3.0
Closer to 3.5.
Another Big Lots bargain bin find. Doesn't really fit my around the world theme as much, even though the author is Canadian; aside from one or two references, the book could be from the United States.
Laugh out loud funny, but also quietly incisive, the book is told in epistolary format, mainly between Roger, a walking midlife crisis, and Bethany, who has put on a facade of Gothic facepaint several inches thick. They both work at Staples. Bethany finds Roger's work in progress, Glove Pond, a very Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf shoutout in prose, which starts the two talking.
There are some sly winks to the reader here, if you catch them. I think I shall hunt down more of Mr. Copeland's work.
Another Big Lots bargain bin find. Doesn't really fit my around the world theme as much, even though the author is Canadian; aside from one or two references, the book could be from the United States.
Laugh out loud funny, but also quietly incisive, the book is told in epistolary format, mainly between Roger, a walking midlife crisis, and Bethany, who has put on a facade of Gothic facepaint several inches thick. They both work at Staples. Bethany finds Roger's work in progress, Glove Pond, a very Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf shoutout in prose, which starts the two talking.
There are some sly winks to the reader here, if you catch them. I think I shall hunt down more of Mr. Copeland's work.