Author: Paul Schmidtberger
Length: 323 pages
Design Flaws of the Human Condition
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“As can only happen in New York, two strangers find themselves railroaded into an anger-management class, where they soon become fast friends. Iris is there because of an eminently justifiable meltdown on a crowded flight, whereas Ken got caught defacing library books with rude (but true!) messages about his former boyfriend. The boyfriend that he caught in bed with another man.
Needless to say, Iris and Ken were cosmically destined to be friends. What follows is a strikingly original comedy as Ken enlists Iris to infiltrate his ex-boyfriend’s life in the hope of discovering that he’s miserable. And Iris reciprocates, dispatching Ken to work himself into the confidence of her own boyfriend, whom she suspects of cheating. But what if Ken’s ex isn’t crying himself to sleep? What if he’s not the amoral fiend Ken wants to believe he is? And what should Iris do when her worst suspicions start to come true? Exactly how perfect do we have the right to expect our fellow human beings to be?”
Janet Dore –
<‘em>“…after you squeeze a person’s spirit away for awhile, it just stays squeezed away.”<\em>
What a fun book! Kinda like a rom com, but with two friends (two gay men and a woman). It left me missing the time in my life when I lived in the gay district of my old city…never had so much fun and felt so cherished by my friends.
Everything about this book is New York City…the setting, the snarky intelligent humor, the situations that come up, and definitely the characters. Spot on.
The story was filled with valuable life lessons, but it wasn’t preachy at all. And it brought to light how grey life is, which made it feel real versus formulaic. I absolutely loved the characters…so real I wanted them as friends.
Highly recommend this to anyone looking for a fun, light, but meaningful read!