Brooklyn Follies

A couple of weeks ago, before school started, I went to a bookstore in Soho, McNally Jackson (for some reason used as the NYU bookstore on Gossip Girl this season, even though it's nowhere near school...) One of the books that they had on display as a Staff Recommendation was a book that I had recently seen at the NYU library. So I headed back to campus to take out this book. It took me awhile to finish it, mostly cus school started and I got super busy, but it was pretty good. It's the story of Nathan Glass who returns to Brooklyn to essentially die, after surviving cancer. Once there though, his family keeps creeping back into his life, essentially saving him from achieving his goal of dying in Brooklyn. He saves them along the way too. It was a pretty good read and was really cool cus I know I'm familiar with that area of Brooklyn so whenever he was on, say, 7th ave, I would know exactly what he was talking about. It was full of lots of quirky and interesting characters, so I would definitely recommend it for a quick read (unless you're me, and then it might be a long read...

Oh yeah, the book is called "Brooklyn Follies" and is written by Paul Auster.