The Good Luck of Right Now
Matthew Quick, 2014
HarperCollins
304 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780062285539
Summary
Call it fate
Call it synchronicity
Call it an act of God
Call it . . .
The Good Luck of Right Now
For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. He thinks he's found a clue when he discovers a "Free Tibet" letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother's underwear drawer. In her final days, Mom called him Richard—there must be a cosmic connection.
Believing that the actor is meant to help him, Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life, writing Richard Gere a series of letters. Jung and the Dalai Lama, philosophy and faith, alien abduction and cat telepathy are all explored in his soul-baring epistles. But mostly the letters reveal one man's heartbreakingly earnest attempt to assemble a family of his own.
A struggling priest, a "Girlbrarian," her feline-loving, foulmouthed brother, and the spirit of Richard Gere all join the quest to help Bartholomew. In a rented Ford Focus, they travel to Canada to see the Cat Parliament and find his biological father...and discover so much more. (From the publisher.)
Good Luck of Right Now (Quick)
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