ANEW YORK TIMESNOTABLE BOOKSELECTED ONE OF 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYMICHIKO KAKUTANI,THE NEW YORK TIMESNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post *; The Boston Globe *; San Francisco Chronicle *; The Seattle Times *; O: The Oprah Magazine*; Maureen Corrigan, NPR *; Salon *; Slate *; MinneapolisStar Tribune *; St. Louis Post-Dispatch *; The Kansas City Star *; Charlotte Observer *; The Globe and Mail *; Vancouver Sun *; Montreal Gazette *; Kirkus ReviewsIn the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of an Russian immigrant janitor and ardent fan of ';printed, bound media artifacts' (aka books), meets Eunice Park, an impossibly cute Korean American woman with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness. Could falling in love redeem a planet falling apart?