Less by Andrew Sean Greer is one of the most entertaining, funny and sweet novels I’ve read in a very long time. Arthur Less, a mid-list novelist from San Francisco is facing losing his youth (turning 50), his floundering career and his lover of nine years who is marrying someone else. He has to get out of town so he cobbles together an extensive writer’s boondoggle from invitations he has long since tossed aside. The trip takes him around the world but he can’t outrun his broken life and broken heart. Laugh, smile and enjoy this comic masterpiece.