The novel follows this motley crew and its attempts to heal from various traumas and misfortunes. Without his mom to look after, he has nothing else to do but hang out at the library, write in his notebook and “listen to the birds.” More help arrives through a cast of misfit characters, including an alcoholic priest, a shy librarian who may have been abducted by aliens, and her foul-mouthed brother, whose “personal dream” is to visit Ottawa’s “Cat Parliament.” (A real thing, apparently.) “Maybe you are meant to help me, Richard Gere, now that mom is gone,” he writes.Īnd Bartholomew is definitely going to need some help. The actor was Mom’s favorite movie star, so Bartholomew interprets this discovery as a sign. She recently died, and while he was cleaning out her things, he found a form letter from Gere urging Americans to boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics in light of China’s crimes against Tibet.
In the book’s opening letter, we learn that 39-year-old Bartholomew has lived his entire life alone with his mother.
The story is written as a series of letters from a “developmentally stunted” devout Catholic Philadelphian named Bartholomew Neil to Richard Gere (yes, the star of “Pretty Woman”). If you can read that sentence without rolling your eyes, you just might get a kick out of Matthew Quick’s twee, offbeat new novel, “The Good Luck of Right Now.”
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