A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies)

In the tradition of Joe Brainard’s I Remember and Georges Perec’s Je me souviens, this delightful novel offers a thousand answers to the question, What are you thinking? (Or, as translator Ian Monk puts it: Penny for them? ) The answers are spontaneous, revealing, ominous, insignificant, grotesque, amusing, lecherous, tragic and trivial by turns, and lovable in their cheerful imperfection. This is a book about the basics: love, sexuality, death, and all the other things that lurk in our everyday thoughts.