false 41229134 1841688 351887 0060513896 9780060513894 3 <![CDATA[Important Things That Don't Matter: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173997763m/351887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173997763s/351887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351887.Important_Things_That_Don_t_Matter_A_Novel 3.45 31 So Dad's around lately. That's it. And I want to tell you things, throw fragments your way that I barely understand. Because it's just funny, flat out, the way someone you don't even know can get up in your face, tweak things that should be so ordinary. Or I think it's funny. Maybe you will too.

Hailed by The New Yorker as "a fictional report from the strip-mall front lines of Generation Y," Important Things That Don't Matter is a provocative, moving, darkly funny portrait of family and divorce, a boy and his father, the eighties and nineties, and sex and intimacy that raises vital questions about a generation just now reaching adulthood.

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