The Passion of Saint-Jablonski

Andrew Mondry's brilliant, knowing, and wildly funny first novel The Passion of Saint-Jablonski is a book for and about America-not the country we want, or pretend to have, but the one we've got: mad, poor, rich, hustling, suffering, and trying for it all with a mix of hope and desperation. Mondry is the real deal-like Russell Banks meets Carl Hiaasen. Think of the tender, comic songbook of John Prine, the dreary kindness of the New England soul, and that one friend who kept threatening a m...