Want Not

<p><strong>A<em> New York Times</em> Notable Book <em>Want Not</em> offers funny and occasionally devastating portraits of humanity...as beautifully mundane and unique as a fingerprint. <em>(Entertainment Weekly</em>)</strong></p><p><strong>Wonderful...the work of a fluid confident and profoundly talented writer. --Dave Eggers </strong></p><p>A highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times <em>Want Not </em>exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair--a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father's losing battle with Alzheimer's; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence trophy wife included. Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something anything more until their worlds collide briefly randomly yet irrevocably in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. </p>