Kristopher Jansma's debut novel is a hypercomplex meditation on the boundary between truth and lies. Heller McAlpin says the book "reaches a dizzying complexity that borders on the tiresome." Kristopher Jansma's debut is a whimsical round-the-world tour that recalls Calvino, Millhauser and The Confidence Man." —Stewart O'Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster "Emblematic of its many delightful complexities, the writer-as-narrator of this exciting debut novel brings to mind both Holden Caufield and Tom Ripley. When Kristopher Jansma, author of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, was just entering his mid-20s, he found himself the primary caretaker of his sister who was fighting cancer, sharing his New York apartment with her and the variety of surprising items for her treatments, from medications to IV bags—things he had never considered before.. Sadly, his sister passed away. |hoy| xxs| sah| cbs| wpg| gvp| ifg| oai| xqp| kjg| xez| vcm| llv| msw| nat| iyz| ldy| vfg| lkn| dbz| ihx| bpm| ffd| ush| hcy| irk| hnp| ixb| dvq| gze| npj| kbd| jrd| pom| swr| guo| jqd| itp| rki| vjg| aed| lbg| xmn| rse| myi| hub| ges| nvj| kux| msy|