Willing

In Scott Spencer's brilliantly funny newest novel' narrator Avery Jankowsky--a failed writer distressed (and obsessed) by his much-younger girlfriend's flagrant infidelity--accepts an offer of an all-expense-paid sex tour around the globe. (Having grown up with four different fathers' a child dragged through each of his mother's serial marriages "like a waterskiier stuck to an out-of-control speedboat'" Avery's relationship to commitment has never been very stable' and Dierdre's cheating wasn't much help.) He secures a book deal to write an undercover narrative of the tour' and heads off to Iceland...Though he hopes the trip will help him cast off the weight of the past' not only does he grow daily more entangled by thoughts of Dierdre' but the trip turns nightmarish as he realizes the level of depravity he has embarked upon' and with whom....

In his signature brilliant prose and with enough wry humor and hilarious quips to keep the reader laughing through the whole debacle' Spencer has delivered a breakout performance.