From the acclaimed Rick Moody a darkly comic portrait of a man who comes to life in the most
unexpected of ways: through his online reviews. Reginald Edward Morse is one of the top
reviewers on RateYourLodging.com where his many reviews reveal more than just details of
hotels around the globe -- they tell his life story. The puzzle of Reginald's life comes
together through reviews that comment upon his motivational speaking career the dissolution of
his marriage the separation from his beloved daughter and his devotion to an amour known only
as K. But when Reginald disappears we are left with the fragments of a life -- or at least the
life he has carefully constructed -- which writer Rick Moody must make sense of. An inventive
blurring of the lines between the real and the fabricated Hotels of North America demonstrates
Moody's masterly ability to push the bounds of the novel.
