My Effortless Brilliance (2008)

Lynn Sheltons My Effortless Brilliance is a study in the relationship between cocky fussy thoroughlycitymouse author Eric Sean Nelson and his exbestfriend the tersely powerful journalist and woodchopper Dylan Basil Harris Dylan fed up with Erics selfinvolved antics dumps him and disappears to live in a log cabin in the woods of Eastern Washington two years later Eric arrives sporting a Prius white sneakers and a fear of spiders to mend the friendship