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The Future for Curious People: A Novel

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The Future for Curious People: A Novel

“Comic and exuberant…A fine and tender tale for anyone who has tried to let go of the past and envision the future while falling in love.” --- Rhonda Riley, authorof THE ENCHANTED LIFE OF ADAM HOPE

Meet Evelyn and Godfrey. Evelyn is breaking up with her boyfriend, who’s passing out advertisements for his band on a snowy street corner in Baltimore. She’s seen their dismal future together at Dr. Chin’s office --- she and her boyfriend, both many years older, singing “Happy Birthday” to a Chihuahua and arguing about cheese. She hopes for more. Meanwhile, Godfrey is proposing to his girlfriend, Madge, who’s not quite willing to take that leap; she wants to see their future together first --- just to be sure they’re meant for each other. THE FUTURE FOR CURIOUS PEOPLE follows Evelyn and Godfrey’s soon-to-be-entwined lives, set in motion by the fabulist premise of a world with envisionists like Dr. Chin. As the characters struggle with their pasts and possible futures, they wrestle with sorrow, love, death and fate.

A novel that will capture you with its wit, its hopefulness, its anxious twists and turns, this love story is ultimately about finding happiness and accepting our fleeting existence.

The Future for Curious People: A Novel
by Gregory Sherl

  • Publication Date: September 2, 2014
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Algonquin Books
  • ISBN-10: 1616203692
  • ISBN-13: 9781616203696