This Book Will Save Your Life - A.M. Holmes

Very well-written and full of quirky yet deep characters. Laugh-out-loud funny in places. The story has a loose, rambling sort of feel to it, with lots of different threads being taken up, put down, taken up again throughout. In a very light, unassuming way it's an indictment of modern America, but mainly it's what Stephen King calls it: a "story of a lost man reconnecting with the world" - and specifically with his estranged son. It reminds me of The Accidental Tourist, but the prose is more enigmatic.