Home Reading Service: A Novel

In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others.

After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walk...