Description: A comedy of errors unfolds in a D.C. bookshop. Matilda, an unfailingly logical person just trying to make sense of the illogical business of books gets teamed up with the new hire to put together an event for the controversial Dr. Jordan Rutabaga, a public intellectual with a cult following who would like to literally and figuratively see him dead.
Brief description:
USA Today and Washington Post bestselling writer Susan Coll is the author of eight previous novels, including The Literati, Real Life & Other Fictions, and Bookish People. Her other books include The Stager, Acceptance, Rockville Pike, and Karlmarx.com. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR.org, The Atlantic.com, The Millions, and other publications. Her novel, Acceptance, was made into a television movie starring Joan Cusack. Susan is the recipient of multiple grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She works as an event consultant at Politics and Prose Bookstore and was the president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation for five years. Coll teaches workshops at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Review Quotes: 'A wonderfully precise and absurd comedy. Susan Coll grounds her humor in the perfect seriousness with which her characters respond to the impossible chaos of their surroundings. Matilda is careful and observant and such a pleasure to spend time with, even as events around her spiral out of control and into a mass of petty revenges, doomed plots, unexpected romances, and badly behaved dogs.'--Holly Gramazio, New York Times bestselling author of The Husbands