THE ENTHUSIAST (Charlie Haas, Harper Collins, 2009).
Loaded with Americana, this debut novel is a coming-of-age story about a young, unattached Californian named Henry who “associate edits” his way across the country. Working for many and various “enthusiast” magazines, Henry visits obscure towns and encounters strange people in his work. The entire novel is undershot with a humorist sensibility, but the reader only gains empathy for Henry in Part II of the novel when he finally commits himself to marriage and is also forced to provide emotional support for his much idealized, geek-genius brother, a stem cell researcher, who endures a debilitating head injury (7.5/10).
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