JOSHUA FERRIS
Monday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m.

We are delighted to welcome Joshua Ferris here, out this way from his Brooklyn base. His debut novel, Then We Came to the End (newly in paper, Back Bay), was one of the most acclaimed and most popular debuts (or works of fiction, for that matter) of the past year. "Then We Came to the End is the Catch-22 of the business world: it's a hilarious and heartbreaking and surreal portrait of the modern American corporation as a carnival—preschool?— of infantile misbehavior and breathtakingly futile and petty and despairing competition. The real revelation is how moving it all becomes: how much humanity and genuine emotional weight finally, against all odds, shine through." - Jim Shepard. "This is a novel, by God! ... I read this novel remembering why I ever wanted to read fiction, why I want to write it ... It is also one of the funniest novels I have ever read." - Geoffrey Wolff.

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