8/14/2023 0 Comments Kate tuttle bookz![]() "This charming novel bears the Fusselman touch that makes all of her books so brilliant: touching, uncanny, and deceptively simple observations that dismantle complex assumptions about the world." The Means is funny, playful and at times painfully accurate." Fusselman deftly captures the absurdity of the everyday and the American quest for more. Fusselman is a prescient observer chronicling the one couple’s desire to live near where the other half live. In Amy Fusselman’s The Means those words are intermingled with laugh, laugh, laugh. "Location, location, location that is the real estate chant. “Fusselman (Idiophone, 2018) delivers a well-paced story with gentle humor, compassion, and a sparkling, original look at the absurdities of everyday life in a world filled with inequities, financial and otherwise.” “No matter how serious the topic, Fusselman reveals the humor.” “A trenchant comedy of class and the way we live now.” THE MILLIONS / Most Anticipated Books of 2022 “The Means is such a fast-paced, breezy comedic novel that you may find yourself surprised that Fusselman deftly and directly leads you to existential dilemmas and the absurdity of capitalism and striving for more.” And what makes her so charming is that she always makes us feel like we're in on the joke.' ![]() What makes Amy so brilliant, I think, is her talent for finding the humor in what Ernest Becker calls our 'ludicrous situation. You can only find this, and so much else, in THE MEANS)" (SPOILER, but look: Maria Semple and David Sedaris are brilliant, but have they written a talking dog as funny as Twix? The answer, my friends, is no. But if you need a hint, Twix the socialist dog will yell it at you. You don’t have to want to live in a shipping container in the Hamptons to understand Shelly Means, the shames and yearnings that drive her hilarious desperate measures. "Just like its title, Amy Fusselman’s new novel is breezy-sharp, super-funny, and full of second meanings and surprising insights into THE MEANS, and what it means to have and lack them. ![]() ![]() Fusselman is warmhearted and generous, and reading this novel was as pleasurable as - well, a day at the beach.” ![]()
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