Everything Matters!
This is the second book by Ron Currie, Jr. His first was God is Dead, an interesting “fiction,” as he called it, that wondered what would happen if God took human form and was killed.
This new novel is superb. It literally follows the life of Junior Thibodeau from his birth to his death. He is born with a prophecy–one that is communicated to him by a voice–that a comet will hit the earth thirty-six years after his birth. Junior is confronted with some fairly serious philosophical issues including: how does one live his life knowing exactly when it will end. How much, if anything, matters. The book is funny in places, very surprising in others, and filled with more than a few plot twists and turns. I’m not sure what Currie is doing in the final 40 pages, and I had to wonder whether the book would have been better without them. But this is an intriguing read, and I highly recommend it.
Everything Matters! New York: Viking, 2009. 302pp. $25.95
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