The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman is the EUBDC selection for March.

The Edinboro Univerisity Book Discussion Group selected The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman as its book for March. The group will next meet on March 15 from 6:45-8:15 pm in Baron-Forness Library room 715.
     This first novel by Tom Rachman, a London-born journalist who has lived and worked all over the world, is so good I had to read it twice simply to figure out how he pulled it off. I still haven’t answered that question, nor do I know how someone so young — Rachman turns out to be 35, though he looks even younger in his author photo — could have acquired such a precocious grasp of human foibles. The novel is alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching, and it’s assembled like a Rubik’s Cube. I almost feel sorry for Rachman, because a debut of this order sets the bar so high.
     “The Imperfectionists” takes place in Rome. The characters are, for the most part, the staff of an unnamed English-­language newspaper founded in the 1950s — for reasons not revealed until the end — by an eccentric American businessman with the perfect name of Cyrus Ott. By 2004, his grandson, Oliver, will be in charge of the fates of the staff members whose stories make up the novel. More’s the pity, since Oliver’s only concern in life is for his basset hound, Schopenhauer. (from New York Times Book Review by Christopher Buckley)