OUR BOOK OF THE WEEK...

Something to Tell You
by Hanif Kureishi (scribner)

In Something to Tell You, Jamal, a Freudian psychoanalyst, reveals not only his own middle-aged anxieties and obsessions but those of his good friend Henry, a theater director, and his eccentric sister Miriam, as well as a bevy of other characters. Kureishi's novel is serious, hilarious, and very humane in revealing his characters' foibles and passions and the polyglot nature of contemporary London. Jamal says of his patients at one point that most regret that they had not "sinned" more and taken better care of their teeth—Kureishi's characters “sin” with exuberance—we should all be so lucky. -G. Berry