In the past five years Mark O'Donnell has garnered a fine reputation for comic invention. His humorous fiction and drawings have appeared in The New Yorker and his collections, Vertigo Park and Elementary Education, are now considered classics. In his new novel, Getting Over Homer, O'Donnell's comic genius is at full tilt. Getting Over Homer tells the story of Blue Monahan, a gay man and songwriter in search of love and security in a world more interested in lust and scarcity. O'Donnell makes us laugh. His ability to crack wise and bring tears to our eyes while doing so is evident on every page. Getting Over Homer is wildly funny but manages to move us as well; it is a great comic novel.
