The Story So Far is a novel, despite the efforts of the main character, Randy Garnette, to convince you otherwise. Randy tells his own story in his own way, sprinkling the narrative with commentary, anecdotes and observations.
He begins his story in high school, where he is among the great majority who live their lives in the wide gap between the cool kids and the geeks. On the outside, Randy is quite unremarkable, but is anyone really ordinary once you get to know them? I don't want to give the game away, but Randy's mundane existence is about to be irrevocably altered by the best... and worst date of his life.
The Story So Far is told in a direct conversational style, as though the reader is sitting in a pub with Randy Garnette, drinking a beer while Randy tells his tale. At times he can be brutally honest, but he never loses his sense of humor, nor his ability to laugh at himself.
The trailer on the back of the book reads It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you say, "What an idiot!" I think most of us can apply this statement to our own life stories.
Perhaps it will be best if you just meet Randy and judge for yourself. Grab something cold to drink, pull up a chair and let him tell you... The Story So Far.
