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The Gum Thief

by Douglas Coupland
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The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore.
In Douglas Coupland’s ingenious new novel we meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged “aisles associate” at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of 20-lb. bond paper for the rest of his life, and his co-worker Bethany, who’s at the end of her Goth phase and young enough to be dreading a lifetime of replenishing the Crayola boutique in Aisle 6. One day Bethany comes across Roger’s notebook in the staff room. She reads it and discovers that this old guy who she has never considered as quite human is writing mock diaries pretending to be her—and he is getting it right. Intrigued, she realizes that Roger is more than a spooky old paper-stocking robot with a name tag, and the two retail workers strike up a touching, if peculiar, epistolary relationship.
On every page of this witty, wise and unforgettable novel Coupland reminds us that love, death and eternal friendship can all transpire where we least expect them. And that even after tragedy seems to have wiped your human slate clean, stories can slowly rebuild you.

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  • English