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Important Things That Don't Matter: A Novel

So Dad's around lately. That's it. And I want to tell you things, throw fragments your way that I barely understand. Because it's just funny, flat out, the way someone you don't even know can get up in your face, tweak things that should be so ordinary. Or I think it's funny. Maybe you will too.

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Hailed by The New Yorkeras "a fictional report from the strip-mall front lines of Generation Y," Important Things That Don't Matteris a provocative, moving, darkly funny portrait of family and divorce, a boy and his father, the eighties and nineties, and sex and intimacy that raises vital questions about a generation just now reaching adulthood.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 272 pages

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