A wickedly funny honest and poignant debut novel in the spirit of Then We Came to the End and This Is Where I Leave You about the absurdity of corporate life the complications of love and the meaning of family.
Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn't know it. Despite escaping his blue-collar Boston upbringing to carve out a mildly successful career at a Madison Avenue ad agency he's a bit of a mess and closing in on forty. He's recently called off a wedding. Now a few days before Christmas he's forced to cancel a long-postponed vacation in order to write produce and edit a Superbowl commercial for his diaper account in record time.
Fortunately it gets worse. He learns that his long-estranged and once-abusive father has fallen ill. And that neither of his brothers or his sister intend to visit. It's a wake-up call for Fin to re-evaluate the choices he's made admit that he's falling for his co-worker Phoebe question the importance of diapers in his life and finally tell the truth about his life and his past.
First-time novelist John Kenney a regular New Yorker contributor mines his own advertising background to weave spot-on compelling insider detail into a hilarious insightful at times sardonic and ultimately moving debut.
A Simon & Schuster audio production.
