Less

Approaching his fiftieth birthday, Arthur Less, a novelist whose career has seen better days, finds himself at a crossroads. A wedding invitation from his ex-boyfriend of nine years arrives, plunging him into a dilemma: accept and face awkwardness, or decline and admit defeat. To avoid both, Arthur embarks on a frantic, globe-trotting literary tour, accepting invitations to obscure events from Paris to Berlin, Morocco to India, and Japan. This journey becomes a humorous and poignant evasion, a comical odyssey across continents where he encounters misadventures, near-romances, and unexpected insights. As Less navigates cultural misunderstandings and personal anxieties, he is forced to confront his past, his failures, and the elusive nature of happiness. Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a witty, tender, and ultimately life-affirming exploration of love, loss, and self-discovery through the eyes of a wonderfully flawed protagonist.