You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers

Well, I love Dave Eggers. A lot of people don't seem to feel the love, but I really do. This was an excellent book, as was "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," which I read a little over a year ago. Now that I know that the first book wasn't just a fluke, I'll have to get "How We Are Hungry" and subscribe to McSweeney's and The Believer. My favorite part of this book has to be the part in the Mexican airport at the end when Will is being asked questions by a little girl completing a social studies project. The whole scene is absolutely perfect. This book made me think about the conflicting feelings I had giving money and things away while I was in India and after I returned. Will's internal dialogue with the people he meets was very authentic to me, having experienced similar things while traveling abroad. I'm not sure how I feel about the interruption, which was not included in my copy of the book, and which I had to obtain from the McSweeney's website. It changes a lot of how I feel about the story, and I'm not sure why Eggers didn't include it in the more recent edition of the book that I have, or indicate to the reader that it existed elsewhere. Does he now want the book to stand on it's own, without the influence of Hand's perspective? I'll need some time to work out what I think of that, and this will be a great book to re-read in order to gain further insight, but for now, I'll just say that I loved it.