Then We Came to the End

Winner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is "as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent." (TIME)

No one knows us in quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the Chicago ad agency depicted in Joshua Ferris's exuberantly acclaimed first novel is family at its best and worst, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.

With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells an emotionally true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment--the one we pretend is normal five days a week.

One of the Best Books of the Year
Boston Globe * Christian Science Monitor * New York Magazine * New York Times Book Review * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Time magazine * Salon

Author: Joshua Ferris
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 02/26/2008
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.49w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780316016391


Award: Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award - Winner


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/09/2008 pg. 28
People Weekly 06/23/2008 pg. 47
Newsweek 09/08/2008 pg. 12
Newsweek 01/25/2010 pg. 50

About the Author
Joshua Ferris's first novel, Then We Came to the End, has been translated into 24 languages. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, and Best American Voices. Ferris was chosen for the New Yorker's "20 Under 40" list of fiction writers in 2010. He lives in New York.