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- - - - Review One of their new offerings from the seemingly omnipresent McSweeney's (Dave Eggers' brainchild) is Lawrence Kauser's strange, funny, and oddly engrossing debut novel, Lemon. Wendell, the story's protagonist, is employed at Fuller Communications (run by one of Buckminster's relatives) as a memo writer extraordinaire. His life takes a turn when, after his long-time girlfriend leaves him, he discovers a lemon that soon takes over as the object of his affections. Kauser handles Wendell's growing obsession perfectly, retaining the obvious humor of the situation without letting it descend into slapstick. Even as we share Wendell's friends' incredulity about his new relationship we see the lemon and the need for connection through the eyes of Wendell. This is a thoughtful novel about filling emptiness and the stretching for meaning and connections to those things around us. Kauser's style is at once terse but also takes flights of fancy whether in descriptions of the frantic inanity of the workplace or in Wendell's love for his lemon. - - - -
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