Everyone wants to write a book. Arlette Rosen knows that and earns her living helping strangers with their book ideas: books about Derrida and dieting, personal histories and Armenian detectives, books about psychic exercises, Alzheimer's jokes, and of course, an infinite number of books about the details of love. Arlette Rosen loves books. She always has. She thinks she knows a good book from a bad one and believes that all writers should aim to be James Joyce, or Proust, or at least not forgotten too quickly.Enter Harbinger Singh. An unusual hero in a brown wool suit that doesn't quite fit, Singh earns his living as a tax lawyer. He enjoys his job, making meticulous columns of numbers day in and day out, parsing people's lives into numbers. Still in love with his ex-wife, a public policy lawyer named Carla, Singh wants to win her back. And he also wants revenge. He decides the path back to Carla is through writing a book, maybe called Hot and Dusty (he'd be the heat, she'd be the dust). All he needs is help with the actual writing.Arlette Rosen and Harbinger Singh meet and enter each other's lives in unalterable ways, ways that form the unusual path Book Doctor takes. It is a path full of books, sex, movies, love, music, and continual revelation.Inspired by the frustrations of writer's block and the vagaries of modern romance, the result is a surprising combination of tremendous heart and urbane, sophisticated, mordantly funny storytelling. Read Less