The Answer to Everything

✍ Scribed by Elyse Friedman

• Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 159 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"The Answer to Everything is compelling proof that Elyse Friedman is one of Canada's best and most crucial writers. Both cynical and searching, it's a hilarious yet deeply moving portrait of an upstart cult gone wrong -- it drew me in from page one but never let me settle, continually surprising me and challenging my take on things. It puts its players through the same paces, and the result is a cast of some of the most memorable characters I've met in a long time. It feels urgently timely, too -- a book that I'll be recommending far and wide." -- Melanie Little, author of Confidence

John Aarons, a brilliant but perpetually broke artist, knows how to cadge a meal or seize an opportunity when he spies one. Turned out on the street by his fully-employed, entirely fed up girlfriend, he goes on the hunt for cheap shared accommodation and stumbles upon the ideal set up--a bedroom in the home of Amy, an attractive psychology student who has been abandoned by...