Even the most serious thinkers among us need to take a break from time to time—whether it’s in the form of a Will Ferrell or Melissa McCarthy movie, or an internet meme of a cat—sometimes we just need some pure entertainment. That’s exactly what Jonathan Harries’ new novel, Infatuation: A Novel of Questionable Taste (July 6, 2018) provides. Harries wrote the book with no other aim in mind than to provide his reader with some fun and entertainment—and he succeeds in spades. A book that is rollicking, romantic, and more than a little bit absurd, readers will be hooked from start to finish, and will be hard pressed to stop laughing long enough to read through to the end. Reading like something out of the theater of the absurd, fans of Carl Hiassen, Dave Barry, and Tim Dorsey will flock to Infatuation. Around each corner is a character or scenario more ridiculous than the next, and the book is completely aware of its own absurdity. Trading heavily in vulgarity and stereotypes, Harries pokes as much fun at the culture that creates them as he relies on them for humor. From start to finish, this book is mindless fun, and doesn’t pretend to be anything else. “I set out to write a book that someone with a two or three-hour flight ahead of them could read and enjoy,” says Harries. “It doesn’t get into politics, it doesn’t expose the dark side of society. It requires very little thinking and, of course, a sense of humor.”