I told a friend: "I both looked forward to this book's publication, having read an excerpt of it in the New Yorker debut fiction issue a couple years ago, and dreaded it, because it's another brilliant debut by a young author. Suddenly, "young writers" are much younger than me. Foer wrote this book between his junior and senior years of college, for crying out loud. And it's a really great book." Original, hilarious, heartbreaking.