LESS by Andrew Sean Greer

Arthur Less, a struggling middle-aged novelist, travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this funny Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review). Less almost falls in love in Paris, almost falls to his death in Berlin, barely escapes to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally books himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounters, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty.

Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last. Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE / A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 / A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017 / A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017 / Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award

-Recommended by Tess