In 1999, Ms. Daum moved from New York City to Lincoln, Neb., and wrote this hilarious novel.

This, anyway, is the departure point for Mark Jacobson's profoundly strange, often hilarious, but erratic and somewhat repetitious first novel, "Gojiro."

A rich and hilarious political novel by a journalist who has actually done politics; most things that happen are accidental, much as they are in the real world.

A picaresque, often hilarious novel, about a wealthy woman's search for love following a family tragedy, that ponders how individuals achieve spiritual wholeness.

A hilarious time-tripping novel.

With no sacrifice of that style, Welsh's superb and hilarious new novel, "Glue," brandishes that heart like an eye-catching cuff link.

A hilarious novel in which a respectable journalist's uncle Max dies, leaving him the last of the great American Jewish gangs.

THE incident at the heart of Tom Wolfe's hilarious first novel is no laughing matter.

"You don't slip much past Stephanie Doyon, whose wry, wicked, sympathetic intelligence informs every page of her winning, hilarious novel."

So begins this hilarious and tragic novel.