A delightfully zany slice of life!
Evelyn & Company by Chad (CM) Muller is a comic novel that will tickle your funny bone and have you holding your sides with laughter.
Muller’s humor is at times very sophisticated and erudite, and at other times it is laugh out loud hilarious. There are puns, slapstick episodes, and black comedy as well. And that is one of the charms of this book: the range of humor with which he is able to tell the story.
He calls the book a revenge comedy, and I can go along with that description. I also see it as social satire, at times bitingly so, in the tradition of Voltaire’s Candide.
The storyline is simple, and in truth the book could be called a plotless novel, or a slice of life. Evelyn Portobello, feeling she’s been cheated by the purveyor of a weight loss miracle drink — seen on TV — decides to get revenge. And from there the laughs just keep on coming.
Does Evelyn get her revenge? You will have to read Mr. Muller’s marvelous book to find out. And I certainly encourage you to do so.
It’s not a long book, but you might want to give your funny bone a rest and take the entire weekend to read Evelyn & Company.
Pick up a copy at Amazon. You won’t regret it.
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