Apropos of my earlier post.
World Leader Pretend is a novel populated by people that are funny and clever and tragic. Frost has created a world fueled by hopefulness and misery, a world where continents seem to be endlessly torn apart and thrust back together. Some of the characters in this novel hand out trust as if it was free pull tokens for a seedy casino; some of them aren’t even sure the sun will ever come up again. The stakes are high, in the game and in the world. Not everyone can win. Some people are going to lose everything they have—some are going to get back something that they lost. Frost tells the story with a crisp modern style, and he has a way of using a phrase the way another writer might use a world that I loved. An thought-provoking and compelling read.
You can pick up a copy of World Leader Pretend from Powell’s Books.
I also recommend taking a peek at www.jamesbernardfrost.com.
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