The Imperfectionists

The Imperfectionists (2010) by Tom Rachman. The imperfectionists of the title are a group of American expatriates living in Rome and working at an English-language newspaper being published there. "The Imperfectionists" is a delicious collection of linked short stories, each telling the story of an individual who either works at the newspaper or is involved with it in some way. I found it compulsively readable and completely entertaining. At 269 pages, the book is the perfect length, long enough to provide a few hours of diverting reading, but not so long as to seem like a burden to read. Grade: A