Everything Matters!

"Startlingly talented . . . he survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice all his own." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times

In this novel rich in character, Junior Thibodeau grows up in rural Maine in a time of Atari, baseball cards, pop Catholicism, and cocaine. He also knows something no one else knows-neither his exalted parents, nor his baseball-savant brother, nor the love of his life (she doesn't believe him anyway): The world will end when he is thirty-six. While Junior searches for meaning in a doomed world, his loved ones tell an all-American family saga of fathers and sons, blinding romance, lost love, and reconciliation-culminating in one final triumph that reconfigures the universe. A tour de force of storytelling, Everything Matters! is a genre-bending potpourri of alternative history, sci-fi, and the great American tale in the tradition of John Irving and Margaret Atwood.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 07/27/2010
ISBN: 9780143117513
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.52w x 0.70d

Review Citations: People 09/19/2011 pg. 83

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 135737 / Everything Matters!
Reading Level: 6.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 19