Second Hand by Michael Zadoorian

Second Hand by Michael Zadoorian

At last, the novel for everyone who has ever loved something secondhand-the High Fidelity of garage sales, the On the Road of thrift shopping, The Moviegoer of the flea market. Richard owns a secondhand store (Satori Junk) just outside Detroit. He's the kind of guy for whom not much happens, until it happens all at once: His mother dies. He rummages his parents' basement for good junk and finds (alongside every purse my mother has ever owned since the Fifties) a box of photos that changes his view of everything. He falls apart over his mother's notes on his favorite meal in an old cookbook. He meets Theresa, a fellow hipster, a thrift-attired junk goddess who shares his feeling for castaways, and he falls for her-hard. Along the way he acquires some junk wisdom about love and loss. Richard's inimitable, hilarious, philosophical, self-deprecating, yearning voice, and his sharp and loving eye for common foibles and unexpected virtues make for a comic novel crammed full of surprise and pleasure. Second Hand is peppered with insight as unpretentious and satisfying as the unexpected garage sale find. Junk, Richard tells us, has taught me that to find new use for an object discarded is an act of glistening purity. I have learned that a camera case makes a damn fine purse or that 40 copies of 'Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass's Whipped Cream and Other Delights' may be used to cover a wall of a bedroom. . . . Junk has taught me that all will come to junk eventually, and much sooner than you think.

Michael Zadoorian is the author of three novels, Beautiful Music, The Leisure Seeker, Second Hand, and a story collection, The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit. A lifelong resident of the Detroit area, he lives with his wife in a 1937 bungalow filled with cats and objects that used to be in the houses of other people.

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ISBN 13	9780393047974
ISBN 10	0393047970
Title	Second Hand
Author	Michael Zadoorian
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Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2000-03-24
Number of pages	272
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