The Imperfectionists

the long version

‘Off the record, who is it?’He hesitates.‘I don’t see why you need to know.’But he does see, of course. ‘It’s my son.’Their chuckles are audible over the speakerphone. ‘Are you serious?’Lloyd Burko is having troubles with his sources, with his technology at the paper, and with his family. Deadline is closing in and he is falling apart. The Imperfectionists is a novel about the quirky, maddening, endearing people who write and read an international newspaper based in Rome: from the obituary repor