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Recommended Reading: 'Then We Came to the End'
March 22, 2007

Not since last year's Company by Max Barry has there been such a funny novel about work -- that place where most of America spends most of its time -- as Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris. However, Ferris's book actually qualifies as even funnier than Barry's simply because it's more about real-life work (Barry's was about a very funny corporate conspiracy; I'll say no more, but do read it).

Ferris's winning schtick in his debut novel is to narrate the book in first-person plural. The "we" voice, as James Poniewozik wrote in his NYTBR piece, works because corporate employees have had it droned into them (pun very much intended) that they need to work in teams.

If you've read Then We Came to the End, I'd love to know what you thought.

Posted by Bethanne Patrick on March 22, 2007 | Comments (3)