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"Y. Scott Fitzgerald satisfies Wes Anderson" (The Village Voice) in this creative and amusing debut in regards to a small man’s mission to become a writer and the misadventures in life and enjoy that take him around the world From as soon as he is able to recall, the hopelessly unreliable—yet hopelessly earnest—narrator of this formidable debut book has desired to become a writer. In the punk clubs of Manhattan for the towns of Sri-Lanka, Kristopher Jansma’s amazing narrator is likely to be inspired and haunted by the achievement of his best friend and competitor written down, the odd and superbly gifted Julian McGann, and forever enamored with Julian’s charming friend, Evelyn, the green eyed woman who got away. Following the group includes a devastating slipping out, eager to tell the reality in his writing and to find out who he is really, Jansma’s narrator finds herself trapped in a never ending web of lies.