David Malman

How about that?

All right.

The next one is a book that we at WW Norton are publishing in January.

It's called Every Exit Brings You Home by Naeem Moore.

And it is the story of a Palestinian couple living in a rundown condo complex in Chicago.

The husband of the couple, who goes by Jack, is

the condo association president.

And so he's constantly talking to all the people in the condos about all of their grievances and everything they think needs to be fixed.

He also works as an airline steward for a major airline in his day job.

And for reasons even he's not quite sure about, when he is with his fellow employees at the airline,

he has them convinced that he is a gay man with a partner, which he is not.

He is a married man with a wife who desperately wants to have a child.

And it goes back and forth between his story as this airline steward and his story in the condos.

And you get to know his coworkers, the other condo people, and everybody is just so well-drawn, every character.

It's one of those books that you, at some point in the book, you want to hug and strangle every single character.

in the book it's funny but in the end it's so moving it's just a beautiful novel and it's getting really really great early reviews so I'm looking forward to people discovering this one it's called Every Exit Brings You Home by Naeem Moore very good

Because I do like to read a fair amount of nonfiction, I thought I'd mention a couple.

And I am drawn to philosophy.

I was an English and philosophy major.

And I think philosophy gets a bad rap as being the kind of book that people don't want to read because it's too difficult or too obscure.