Meiselman : the lean years
(Book)

"Meiselman has had enough. After a lifetime spent playing by the rules, this lonely thirty-six-year-old man -- 'number two' at the New Niles Public Library in suburban Chicago, in charge of events and programs, and in no control whatsoever over his fantasies about his domineering boss -- is looking to come out on top at last. And no one -- not his newly observant physical therapist wife, not the Holocaust survivor neighbor who regularly disturbs his sleep with her late-night-gardening, and certainly not the former-schoolmate-turned-renowned-author who's returning to New Niles for a triumphant literary homecoming -- is going to stand in his way."--From the back cover.