The Good Luck of Right Now
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Genre: Fiction, Adult, Humor, Contemporary
Publisher: Harper
Synopsis:
For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His redheaded grief counselor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mom, Saturday mass, and the library learn how to fly?
Bartholomew thinks he’s found a clue when he discovers a “Free Tibet” letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother’s underwear drawer. In her final days, mom called him Richard—there must be a cosmic connection. Believing that the actor is meant to help him, Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life, writing Richard Gere a series of highly intimate letters. Jung and the Dalai Lama, philosophy and faith, alien abduction and cat telepathy, the Catholic Church and the mystery of women are all explored in his soul-baring epistles. But mostly the letters reveal one man’s heartbreakingly earnest attempt to assemble a family of his own.
A struggling priest, a “Girlbrarian,” her feline-loving, foul-mouthed brother, and the spirit of Richard Gere join the quest to help Bartholomew. In a rented Ford Focus, they travel to Canada to see the cat Parliament and find his biological father . . . and discover so much more.
My Review:
I had read a lot of nice things about this book. I wasn't really sure if I'll like the book (it's an adult novel and i'm a sucker for ya's) at first but as I read more chapters, I came to realize that this one's good. I love everyone's peculiarity and oddity: naive main character, a defrocked priest, an abused grief counselor, the odd girlbrarian and a dude that says the f-word in between his sentences (or words). They all differ from each other but a remarkable friendship developed as Bartholomew lives a new chapter of his life.
This is an epistolary novel , the entire story is written in forms of letters. It is quirky and it's very unusual to meet such characters in other books. I must confess, this was the very first book by Matthew Quick that I read, I guess I need to read more of his books.
My Review:
I had read a lot of nice things about this book. I wasn't really sure if I'll like the book (it's an adult novel and i'm a sucker for ya's) at first but as I read more chapters, I came to realize that this one's good. I love everyone's peculiarity and oddity: naive main character, a defrocked priest, an abused grief counselor, the odd girlbrarian and a dude that says the f-word in between his sentences (or words). They all differ from each other but a remarkable friendship developed as Bartholomew lives a new chapter of his life.
This is an epistolary novel , the entire story is written in forms of letters. It is quirky and it's very unusual to meet such characters in other books. I must confess, this was the very first book by Matthew Quick that I read, I guess I need to read more of his books.
My Rating: 3.5/5 stars
Originally posted on January 28, 2015
