In the Same Boat: ‘Love Is a Canoe,’ by Ben Schrank
New York Times
New York, Ny., United States
January 4, 2013

Despite a softly cynical underside, "Love Is a Canoe" is an affirmation that secrets, fantasies and wrong turns are part of both publishing careers and love. Schrank has done something here that may sound impossible: He's written a funny novel about publishing that is not caustic but optimistic, not biting but bighearted — a story about the delusions with which self-aware, smart people are all too willing to live in order to avoid the painful (yet entertaining) upheaval that comes with truth.

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Grinnell College
Dean Bakopoulos, english
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