randomWalks

I picked up Everything is Illuminated - a work of semi-fiction in which a young boy tries to find a woman in Eastern Europe who may or may not have saved his family from being taken to concentration camps.

I got it from Seventh Avenue Books (25% all new books) after seeing Jonathan Safran Foer read & sign this weekend at Book Hampton - where a friend noted "He looks like a completely lost 18 year old." The New York Times raved about it. I've also had 4 different subway sightings, and that's always a good sign.

About the Author (from the above Powell's link):

Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977 in Washington, D.C. He is the editor of the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, a Book Sense 76 selection and a Boston Globe bestseller. His stories have been published in the Paris Review and Conjunctions. Jonathan traveled to the Ukraine four years ago to research his grandfather’s life. This is his first novel, parts of which appeared in The New Yorker.