How I Met the Man of My Dreams by Debbianne DeRose

And he has the help of local law enforcement officers and some powerful state politicians. And she discovers that this man has been abducting Black girls and women as part of some delusional plot to turn society back to the Antebellum South. She's kidnapped by a white supremacist while she's back home in Alabama for her grandmother's funeral. The protagonist is a philosophy professor, Allie Douglass. The novel I could not put down this year was 'The Confessions Of Matthew Strong' by Ousmane K. It's NPR national correspondent Debbie Elliott. Less is a hapless Walloon, a possibly European man of letters and privilege who stumbles through mounting humiliations out of impending tragedies and into surprising success, yet his inability to recognize his luck as luck is why we love Less more and more.ĭEBBIE ELLIOTT, BYLINE: Hi.

There's a passage about Less joining a gym that turned out to be a sex dungeon that is so funny, it had me laughing out loud. And he wonders if he really might be guilty as charged. Less is accused of being a bad gay for not taking up every single cutting-edge queer issue in his writing. So he takes to the road in a rented van with a borrowed pug to make some money and figure out if he still loves who and what he thinks he loves. Arthur Less's losses are legion - his former lover, his current partner, his house, his self-confidence. It's the follow up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'Less' from a few years ago. I'm recommending the novel 'Less Is Lost' by Andrew Sean Greer. I'm Jason DeRose, the Western bureau chief for NPR News. NPR's Books We Love has more than 400 reading recommendations for you. But guess what? Our contributors and staff have got you covered. There were a lot of great new books this year, too many to keep track of.

How I Met the Man of My Dreams by Debbianne DeRose