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Benjamin Kunkel's brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our time?a pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse.
Random House
September 2005
Featuring: Dwight B. Wilmerding
256 pages
ISBN: 1400063450
Hardcover
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Contemporary
Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he's having
a midlife crisis. Of course, living a dissolute, dorm like
existence in a tiny apartment and working in tech support at
the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer are not especially conducive
to wisdom. And a few sessions of psychoanalysis conducted by his sister
have distinctly failed to help with his biggest problem: a
chronic inability to make up his mind. Encouraged by one of his roommates to try an experimental
pharmaceutical meant to banish indecision, Dwight jumps at
the chance (not without some meditation on the hazards of
jumping) and swallows the first fateful pill. And when all
at once he is 'pfired' from Pfizer and invited to a
rendezvous in exotic Ecuador with the girl of his long-ago
prep-school dreams, he finds himself on the brink of a new life. The trouble--well, one of the troubles--is that Dwight can't
decide if the pills are working. Deep in the jungles of the
Amazon, in the foreign country of a changed outlook, his
would-be romantic escape becomes a hilarious journey into
unbidden responsibility and unwelcome knowledge. How to affirm happiness without living in constant denial of
the ways of the world? How to commit, and to what? At once
funny and poignant, gentle and outrageous, finely
intelligent and proudly silly, Indecision rings with
a voice
of great energy and originality, while its deeper inquiries
reflect the concerns and style of a generation.
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