Book: The Answer Is No

 Book: The Answer is No

Author: Fredrik Backmann

Pages: 68

This is my 66th read for the year

What Amazon says:

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai.  Peanuts are a must.  Other people?  Not so much.  Why complicate things when he's happy alone?  Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell.  And Lucas's solitude takes a startling hike.  They deman to see his frying pan.  Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucs suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party.  But their plan backfires.  Colossally.  This story is a portrait of a man struggling to keep to himself in a world that won't leave him alone.

This is a great book.  I am a Backman fan and this one did not disappoint.  It was a free short story from Amazon first reads, which was a total score.  It is a funny, clever, goofy, and touching story all rolled into 68 pages.  I liked the characters.  I laughed out loud at a few parts.  I feel Lucas in my soul.  The story is well developed and wraps up nicely.  Check this one out.

Stars:5