To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. By Joshua Ferris. Little, Brown; 352 pages; $26. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukDR PAUL O’ROURKE runs a successful dental practice off Park Avenue. He spends his days persuading patients to floss and his evenings watching Red Sox games in the company of a curry, a Groundhog-Day existence that leaves plenty of time for existential angst.When someone creates a website and social media accounts in Paul’s name, he begins an e-mail exchange with the mystery creator—a philosophical voice from Israel who claims Paul is a descendant of the Ulms, an ancient group supposedly eradicated during biblical times. Could this unknown diaspora be the family Paul has been missing? He always longed to be embraced by the domestic tribes of his ex-girlfriends (the Christian Santacroces and the Jewish Plotzes). By joining the Ulms he could be “sucked up, subsumed into something greater, historical,...
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