Book Review: 'The Book of George' is a witty novel in lively episodes like a first-rate TV sitcom

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“The Book of George” is a novel of many finely crafted, often funny moments that arrive episodically as the title character grows older. At first he’s a millennial kid, then a college guy as the Twin Towers fall on 9/11.

In time George — he’s given no surname — graduates and struggles over what to do with the rest of his life. Fate actually treats him pretty well. He’s an attractive, smart New Yorker; his family has some money; and he’s often quite lucky.

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