The Gum Thief

Plot

A post-modern delight. Playfully structured, and with a warmheart, it's full of witty observations and real solace. - -Esquire Funny; genuinely, embarrass-yourself-on-a-plane funny. TheGum Thief sometimes reads like a more cleverly executed versionof Breakfast of Champions. The TimesRoger is a middle-aged and divorced aisles associate at a Staplesoutlet. His co-worker Bethany is facing fifty more years ofshelving Post-it notes. Then Bethany discovers Roger s notebookand finds that he s writing diary entries pretending to be her and weirdly, he s getting it right. Bethany and Roger strike up asecret correspondence, and as it unfolds so too do the charactersof Roger s work-in-progress, Glove Pond, a Cheever-era novellagone horribly, horribly wrong.