30 - The House of Tomorrow

Finished The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni. This was a review copy, which I received from the publisher. This is also an Amy Einhorn book, which I am reading as part of the Amy Einhorn Challenge.

I could tell you what it's about but it'll just sound weird and you'll think, "Yeah, that'll be fun."

Instead, I'm going to tell you what it's like. It's basically like if Nick Hornby, Douglas Coupland in his Generation X/Microserfs days and Tom Perrotta teamed up to write a book about a teenage boy and his introduction to punk music. It's a story about teenagers and it actually is like what it's like to be a teenager. It's a book that is pretty far outside of my experience (I could not tell you thing one about anything the characters experience in this novel) and yet, I completely get everything. It's got nothing to do with me, but it's my story. And I bet you'll have the same reaction, because everyone knows what it's like to experience something for the first time and get a thrill of recognition, that sense of "Oh yeah, this is what I was waiting for."

And without sounding lame (I hope), I was waiting for this book.

And this is Peter Bognanni's debut novel--I cannot wait to see what else he has in store for readers. (I hope he's more prolific than Hornby & Perrotta have been thus far.)