Mania -- Lionel Shriver, Hardcover Antiques / Collectibles and a rival catering company

and a rival catering company is fuming

These are the leaders who inspire employees to stretch themselves

Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences

a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart

Now he's traveling the country with Hunter and his wife

Mania -- Lionel Shriver, Hardcover Antiques / Collectibles and a rival catering company"A fantasy that hews uncomfortably close to today's reality, where facts and the truth are selectively recognized at increasingly subjective whims . . . . The specifics of Mania are the stuff of bleeding satire, but the novel's guiding concept cuts close to the bone with no anesthesia. Shriver isn't one to tip toe around her subjects. She still knows how to poke the bear. In this case, the bear is us." Boston Globe Set in a parallel yet all too