New York: Viking, (2013). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel - an "inventive and witty debut about a young man's quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe." A "canny, seductive, and utterly transfixing tale about the magic of storytelling and the misery of writing is told by an itinerant, chameleonic writer who calls himself Nobody." (Booklist) An ALA Notable Book for Adults. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2012 (before publication) 253 pp.