Less Is Lost (Arthur Less #2)

by Andrew Sean Greer

Arthur Less has been out of place many times in his life. I would guess he has been out of place almost everywhere except that bedroom with the trumpet vine (as perhaps have I). He has been at Cub Scout meetings where every boy has been asked to tie his favorite knot, gay parties where he has had to write on his name tag his sexual kink (long underwear), bars where he has had to pick songs from the jukebox, yoga classes where he has had to imitate the pose of a contortionist, and every morning of his life when he has had to decide whether it could be done today. He has done them all. So being in a place of utter misrule and chaos is no problem for him. In some way, that is the comfort zone of Arthur Less. He knows, in such places, where he stands.