In honor of my recent stint as "journalist", I decided to read The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman.
The Imperfectionists is a novel about an English-speaking newspaper, headquartered in Rome.
Each chapter focuses on a different member of the staff, and reveals various personal imperfections:
- desperation (both personal and professional)
- insecurity (and a tendency to compare ourselves, usually unfavorably, to others)
- loneliness, and the lengths some people will go to avoid it
- giving up
- inadequacy
- jealousy and revenge
- selfishness
- arrogance
- timidness
- ambition
Each chapter also contains a flashback to the history of the paper and the newspaper industry in general.
I thought the book was... good.
I didn't LOVE it.
But, I think it would prompt some really interesting conversations.
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