Today's Reading: Lydia Sandgren

 

The first line of Collected Works by Lydia Sandgren is

Martin Berg was on his back on the living room floor, hands folded over his stomach.

Emily Temple at LitHub loved the book:

Lydia Sandgren's Collected Works is the most convincing work of literary fiction I've read in years: one part family saga, one part buddy comedy, one part mystery, one part bildungsroman, and one part philosophical inquiry into the nature of art, the whole filled with unforgettable characters, wry humor, and knock-down gorgeous sentences, positively vibrating with intelligence and style. People often write, with varying degrees of accuracy, that new books feel destined to become classics, but Collected Works feels like it already is one—and you, lucky reader, have stumbled upon it." 

I am about ten percent of the way through the book and I recommend it.