Bestselling Author Joshua Ferris Takes on Social Media in Latest Novel

Our next selection for the MashableReads social book club is To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by award-winning author Joshua Ferris.

We all cultivate our online identity. But what if our online persona was created by someone else and simply given to us, without our consent? That is exactly what happens to Paul O'Rourke, a social media-averse dentist who discovers that his identity has been stolen

As Paul fights to reclaim his identity, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour forces readers to ask which is more real: the way we represent ourselves online, or the real world lives that we live?

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