A review by jeremyhornik
Who Is Rich? by Matthew Klam
5.0
I love this book. The prose is incredibly funny, with strange and incongruous connections made. The characters are deep, detailed and precise and unexpected. The narrating white dude has-been cartoonist is self-aware enough of his position to count his blessings and volatile enough to throw them all out at any second.
It took a long time to read this, because it was so good and dense with detail and action, and also because the terrible actions of the narrator kept making me squirm. I kept reading a chapter quickly, then putting the book down with an "OH MY GOD" feeling, and dreading to pick it back up but needing to see what happened.
Adultery, art, class war (of the Cold War type), marriage, parenting, comics. Check it out.
It took a long time to read this, because it was so good and dense with detail and action, and also because the terrible actions of the narrator kept making me squirm. I kept reading a chapter quickly, then putting the book down with an "OH MY GOD" feeling, and dreading to pick it back up but needing to see what happened.
Adultery, art, class war (of the Cold War type), marriage, parenting, comics. Check it out.