A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris

From the Bookershortlisted author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour comes a novel about fathers sons thwarted dreams and confronting the reality of who we really are Charlie Barnes is a midcentury man devoted to his newspaper and his landline. But Charlie is about to get dragged into our troubled age by his storyteller son who has a different idea of him than he has of himself. Then there are his other children his exwives present wife business clients friends and acquaintances all of whom ha Paperback softback