Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter, 368 pages

The library book clubs are reading "Beautiful Ruins" this year.  My preferred method of "reading" books is actually listening to them but I read this one the old fashioned way.  As I have a problem finding the time to do extended reading that was a problem.  "Beautiful Ruins" involves several stories, characters, story types and fluctuates between 1962, the present and the recent present.

Just because I had a problem keeping all of it straight, that doesn't mean I am not recommending this book.  I am.  It is extremely well written, funny and smart.  Just do yourself a favor and take the time to savor it in big chunks.