Then We Came to the End

In his debut novel, Joshua Ferris describes the motley crew at an advertising agency going slowly downhill. Tom Mota is a bitter, recently divorced, gun-loving copywriter who wears three polo shirts at once. Hank Neary is perpetually writing a “small, angry” novel about an ad agency. Lynn Mason is their boss, a self-possessed workaholic. The office shenanigans are fun, but the surprise is how often the story is genuinely moving. Uniquely narrated from a “we” perspective, Then We Came to the End was a 2007 National Book Award finalist. --Katy S.

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