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02.21: Jason Porter
2014-01-14 00:36:43| Powells Books Events Calendar
Why Are You So Sad? (Plume), Jason Porter's uproarious, intelligent debut, centers on Raymond Champs, an illustrator of assembly manuals, who is charged with a huge task: to determine whether or not the world needs saving. It comes to him in the midst of a losing battle with insomnia — everybody he knows, and maybe everybody on the planet, is suffering from severe clinical depression. He's nearly certain something has gone wrong. It's in the water, or it's in the mosquitoes, or maybe in the ranch-flavored snack foods. And what if we are all too sad and dispirited to do anything about it? Reminiscent of Gary Shteyngart, George Saunders, and Douglas Coupland, Porter's debut is an acutely perceptive and sharply funny meditation on what makes people tick.
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