Everything Matters!

The second novel from Ron Currie, Jr., the author of "God is Dead" and 2009 Addison M. Metcalf Award winner. "Everything Matters!" centers on Junior Thibodeau, who is afflicted with a strange foreknowledge while still within his mother's womb: he (and only he) knows that in precisely 36 years a devastating comet will strike the earth, destroying human life as we know it (including, of course, his own and his family's). Currie's intriguing book is an exploration of Junior's attempts to find meaning in a life that he knows is already artificially truncated, and his unusual resulting perspectives on mother, father, brother, and friends, each toiling away at what must seem to him absurd pastimes.