Earlier this year I read Less, a novel by Andrew Sean Greer about a gay man approaching his 50th birthday around the time that his recent ex is getting married. He is a midlist writer who had one very well-received book at least a decade before. He decides to travel around the world, taking advantage of a bunch of random literary opportunities like teaching gigs and lectures and residencies. This is a hilarious novel. Laugh at loud funny. It is also insightful and deeply touching. The ending is sentimental and totally worked on me, tears streaming down my face though the last pages.
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