Title: everybody owes somebody sometime
Product review: This book has a gimmick (a spy in heaven) -- so does Dave Eggers's book, and so does Atonement. Those gimmicks work, but this gimmick becomes very very tiresome very very soon. Even so, I'd stick with it if the writing were good. It's precious, and not for mature readers. I keep on, thinking, surely, any moment... but no. What I'll remember from this is that even fabulous writers like Jonathan Franzen have publicists and editors who can coerce him into writing a blurb. That's how the system works. Read Three Junes by Julia Glass instead.
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