Overqualified

Searching through the net, live journal to be more precise, I made a discovery, a very nice literary jewel, Overqualified. Not your usual type of novel, Overqualified is a story told through, of all things, cover letters.
I haven't been able to get my hands on the book (yet), it is based on a series of job application letters that the author Joey Comeau actually sent to companies and that he published on the web, and I have read those, and they're wonderfully good, making you laugh and hate yourself and the world and making you love yourself and the world, making you feel giddy, guilty, amused, disturbed, hungry, content and God knows what else.
The book, unlike the applications, follows a story line about a man whose brother got into an accident an how they have to live through that.

Cover letters are all the same. They're useless. You write the same lies over and over again, listing the store-bought parts of yourself that you respect the least. God knows how they tell anyone apart, but this is how it's done.

And then one day a car comes out of nowhere, and suddenly everything changes and you don't know if he'll ever wake up. You get out of bed in the morning, and when you sit down to write another paint-by-numbers cover letter, something entirely different comes out.

You start threatening instead of begging. You tell impolite jokes. You talk about your childhood and your sexual fantasies. You sign your real name and you put yourself honestly into letter after letter and there is no way you are ever going to get this job. Not with a letter like this.

And you send it anyway.

I recommend it, even if it's only the online ones, they're very good, and the first edition just sold out (it's not even in stores yet), second edition is coming out. Be good and buy it.