This book is 145 pages about a Red Lobster’s last day of business. That’s it, that’s the plot. It’s about the people – Manny, the manager, mostly, working the final shift in a closing chain restaurant on the outskirts of a parking lot of a sad, gray mall, just before Christmas during a bleak, snowy New England storm. It sounds like it shouldn’t be interesting, but it is – I think it’s because it’s obvious that the author really cares. He’s writing with love about […]