�Wildly differing perspectives merge beautifully into one cohesive look at loneliness and despair. Yes, Coupland is dark and cutting about our fluorescent-lit times, but there's also a real underlayer of gratitude here, for the hand that can reach down and unite with you in the darkness. A�.��Karen Valby, Entertainment WeeklyDouglas Coupland�s ingenious novel�think Clerks meets Who�s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?�is the story of an extraordinary epistolary relationship between Roger and Bethany, two very different, but strangely connected, �aisles associates� at Staples. Watch as their lives unfold alongside Roger�s work-in-progress, the oddly titled Glove Pond. A raucous tale of four academics, two malfunctioning marriages, and one rotten dinner party, Roger�s opus is a Cheever-style novella gone horribly wrong. But as key characters migrate into and out of its pages, Glove Pond becomes an anchor of Roger�s unsettled�and unsettling�life.Coupland electrifies us on every page of this witty, wise, and unforgettable novel. Love, death, and eternal friendship can all transpire where we least expect them�and even after tragedy seems to have wiped your human slate clean, stories can slowly rebuild you.