Brian's review
This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes
In the latter of her two literary epochs (the first being characterized by gritty, hyper-sexualized works like Jack and The End of Alice), A.M. Homes has written about slightly absurd things that happen to slightly absurd people. This Book Will Save Your Life fits this mold almost too perfectly: a man's nervous breakdown leads to a series of unusual events, each helping him return his life to good 'ol fashioned American normalcy. That This Book Will Save Your Life is one of Homes's most successful ventures speaks in equal parts to the author's departure from truly groundbreaking writing and America's passive, lazy hope that our problems can/will be solved by luck and happenstance alone.
