Word Salad

A Novel
A comedy of errors unfolds in a D.C. bookshop. Matilda, an unfailingly logical person just trying to make sense of the illogical business of books gets teamed up with the new hire to put together an event for the controversial Dr. Jordan Rutabaga, a public intellectual with a cult following who would like to literally and figuratively see him dead.

Matilda loves logic and order, and now her structured world is falling apartin a bookstore.

Former economics major Matilda is moving back to her hometown of Washington D.C. to care for her ailing mother, and shes desperate for money. She takes a job at her neighborhood bookstore and tries, in vain, to make sense of illogical business of books. To make things worse, shes forced to team up with a new hirethe enigmatic, flaky, larger-than-life, Sagewho shows up on her first day of work with zero administrative skills and her tiny, puffy, incessantly urinating dog