One's Company: A Novel [Paperback]

One of the Joyfully weird...?Like many sitcoms, this novel balances lightness, humor and love with moments of darkness and even horror...?Who among us has never longed to escape into a TV show, a movie, a written story, to live in it at least temporarily?? This novel hooked me from the very first line... Hutsons prose is both simple and captivating, containing nuggets of wisdom that peek into the complexity of humanity. One of my favorite books of the year... [ [An] affecting and ingenious debut...?This darkly clever work dramatizes the necessity and fragility of illusions, showing how they can crumble when broadcast to the world. Hutson is off to a brilliant start. [Ashley] Hutson is far too smart...to turn Bonnie into an easy case study on the effects of trauma...Hutsons prose, too, is as cleareyed and convincing as the novels premise is farcical...Looks at trauma, wealth, and infatuation through a startlingly original lens. [An] engaging debut& There's much to appreciate in Hutson's deft exploration of the toll trauma takes as well as both the lure and dangers of disappearing into a fantasy world. This book is such a savvy, deadpan, moving meditation-unto-absurdity on obsession and trauma and throwaway television and the ways that our hobbies can hurt us and heal us and sometimes overwhelm us. I absolutely loved it. Like some uncanny hybrid of Tom McCarthy, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Ashley Hutsons novel fearlessly takes on trauma, loneliness, madness, and desire in wholly unexpected ways. The dazzling imagination of the novels formidable protagonist, Bonnie Lincoln, is rivaled only by that of her brilliant creator:US