The Funniest Book I Have Read in an Embarrassing Place

I was on a flight to Boston when I started Less. By the third chapter I was doing that thing where you try to suppress laughter in a quiet cabin and the effort makes you look stranger than the laughter would have. Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer winner is about Arthur Less, a minor novelist who accepts every international literary invitation he receives in order to avoid attending his former partner's wedding. The jokes are real and the sadness underneath them is realer.