The Barbarian Nurseries

My job may or may not make its way onto this list, but it certainly has its moments.  A lot of the time I end up reading crap that I remember nothing about after a few weeks, without remorse.  But this is good stuff.  I haven't finished it yet, so it's still possible that the ending gets this tagged as "not."  But I doubt it.  I recently finished another highly-touted look into the psyche of contemporary U.S. immigrants, We the Animals, and was not impressed.  This, on the other hand, has me excited to arrive at work.  Funny.  Poignant.  Real.  Absurd.  Intimate.  Cinematic.  It's due out in the final week of September.  Written by Hector Tobar.