From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art
Doubleday
March 2007
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Featuring: Lucinda Hoekke; Complainer
240 pages ISBN: 038551218X EAN: 9780385512183 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint
Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random
grievances. Most of the time, the work is excruciatingly
tedious. But one frequent caller, who insists on speaking
only to Lucinda, captivates her with his off-color
ruminations and opaque self-reflections. In blatant defiance
of the rules, Lucinda and the Complainer arrange a
face-to-face meeting—and fall desperately in love.
Consumed by passion, Lucinda manages only to tear herself
away from the Complainer to practice with the alternative
band in which she plays bass. The lead singer of the band is
Matthew, a confused young man who works at the zoo and has
kidnapped a kangaroo to save it from ennui. Denise, the
drummer, works at No Shame, a masturbation boutique. The
band’s talented lyricist, Bedwin, conflicted about the
group’s as-yet-nonexistent fame, is suffering from writer’s
block. Hoping to recharge the band’s creative energy,
Lucinda “suggests” some of the Complainer’s philosophical
musings to Bedwin. When Bedwin transforms them into
brilliant songs, the band gets its big break, including an
invitation to appear on L.A.’s premiere alternative radio
show. The only problem is the Complainer. He insists on
joining the band, with disastrous consequences for all.
Brimming with satire and sex, You Don’t Love Me Yet is a
funny and affectionate send-up of the alternative band
scene, the city of Los Angeles, and the entire genre of
romantic comedy, but remains unmistakably the work of the
inimitable Jonathan Lethem.
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