B.J. Novak's "One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories" is an
endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly
original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in
American fiction.
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to
discover that claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A
woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins--turning
for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven,
overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to
visit his grandmother. We meet Sophia, the first artificially
intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might
not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with
scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and
post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an
intervention in the era of Facebook. Along the way, we learn why
wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how
February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just .
. . "down."
Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to
the icing on carrot cake, "One More Thing" has at its heart the
most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner
stirring for the one elusive element just that might make a person
complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and
narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like
nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the
playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and
altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion
to the entertainment of the reader.
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