4To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
I love a good mystery book, but you should also try this summer a story that is highly connected to the reality we are living right now.
This book forces readers to ask which is more real: the way we represent ourselves online, or the real world lives that we live?
Paul O’Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn’t know how to live in it. He’s a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their victories, and an atheist not quite willing to let go of God.
Then someone begins to impersonate Paul online, and he watches in horror as a website, a Facebook page, and a Twitter account are created in his name.
As Paul’s quest to learn why his identity has been stolen deepens, he is forced to confront his troubled past and his uncertain future in a life disturbingly split between the real and the virtual.
