![]() Gene sends Rosie, a graduate student in his department, to Don as a joke, a ringer for the Wife Project. Gene is a cad, a philanderer who chooses women based on nationality-he aims to sleep with a woman from every country. Gene brought Don as a postdoc to the prestigious university where he is now an associate professor. Don’s best friends are Gene and Claudia, psychologists. He cannot understand social cues, barely feels emotion and can’t stand to be touched. While he makes this observation near the end of the book, it comes as no surprise-this story plays the rom-com card from the first sentence. But it was real.” So Don Tillman, our perfectly imperfect narrator and protagonist, tells us. ![]() I had been living in the world of romantic comedy and this was the final scene. The book won the 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Polished debut fiction, from Australian author Simsion, about a brilliant but emotionally challenged geneticist who develops a questionnaire to screen potential mates but finds love instead. ![]()
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