Vacation reading

Chicago lit event:
Deb Olin Unferth reads at Quimby's on Sat., Sept. 27. Info here.

From the Village Voice review of her new novel:
Vacation, Deb Olin Unferth's dreamy, surreal debut novel, reads like an extended hallucination or out-of-body experience, as unsettling as it is compelling. The fragmented narrative is an intricate cross-hatch of character and misprision: A man named Meyers stalks his wife, whom he suspects is having an affair with an old acquaintance named Gray. The wife, never named, follows Gray across Manhattan, but it's a random, compulsive pastime she engages in while her marriage unravels; she doesn't know Gray, doesn't know he's her husband's friend, doesn't know that Gray's own marriage has ended. Meanwhile, a young woman seeks the biological father she has never met, an eco-terrorist who liberates captive dolphins.

Now for some unfortunate news: We missed Irvine Welsh (author of Trainspotting and Crime) at the Metro’s new reading series, Read Against Recession. Bummer.