"We set fire to all mattress."
Fortunately, the headline’s not a typo. It’s a snippet of dialogue from the first pages of A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz’s sprawling, hilarious debut novel from Speigel & Grau, that sent me into a string of audible laughter. The book has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, as announced early last week, which comes […]