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The Imperfectionists: A Novel

This book will be most appreciated by people who prefer their fiction to read like non-fiction.  Set in a newsroom, it's really a collection of short stories of newspaper personalities.  Everyone from trust fund kids to desperate career women to agoraphobic readers appear.  There is one of the finest scenes involving a relationship meltdown anywhere: A man who makes the mistake of revealing his vulnerabilities is rewarded by...(no spoilers here), although experienced men know that sharing emotions with a woman is like putting blood in the water around sharks.  I wish I had bought the book on Kindle, so I could have reproduced it.

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on November 10, 2010 (boomark / email).