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<p><b>What if somebody finally wrote to his high school alumni bulletin and told...the truth! <i>Home Land</i> is a brilliant work from novelist Sam Lipsyte, whom Jeffrey Eugenides calls "original, devious, and very funny" and of whose first novel Chuck Palahniuk wrote, "I laughed out loud--and I never laugh out loud."</b><br><br>The Eastern Valley High School Alumni newsletter, Catamount Notes, is bursting with tales of success: former students include a bankable politician and a famous baseball star, not to mention a major-label recording artist. Then there is the appalling, yet utterly lovable, Lewis Miner, class of '89--a.k.a Teabag--who did not pan out.<i> Home Land</i> is his confession in all its bitter, lovelorn glory.<br><br><i>Winner of the Believer Book Award<br>New York Times Notable Book of the Year </i></p>