This is the first 2010 book thatt I have read this year. Joshua Ferris is an highly acclaimed young writer and I really wanted to like this book much more than I did. A man has a condition that forces him to walk until he drops with exhaustion. This unnamed malady is a compulsion that affects not only him but his long-suffering wife and daughter.
This book is less about the condition that manifests in such an odd manner but the strain that it causes upon the marriage. This book is a maudlin take that garners neither hope nor redemption.
Ferris is, no doubt, a talented writer. He has a mastery with words that is rare among the schlock that is often churned out today. However, this is a threadbare story that offers no resolution. If like like artful prose and a bleak story this is for you.