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With an endorsement like this, I don't see how I'm going to avoid reading Last Night at the Lobster:

I just finished reading an exquisite novella, Last Night at the Lobster, by Stewart O'Nan. It's a slender volume depicting the last day of operation of a struggling Red Lobster franchise in New Britain, Connecticut as seen through the eyes of its manager. This is not a novel of ideas nor one which depicts anything we would commonly think of as heroic or historic. It is simply an exquisitely crafted portrait of an unusually difficult working day in the life of a decent man buffeted by both corporate power and the quotidian obligations he owes to a network of family, colleagues and friends. The writing is humane, wise and knowing. You can read it in a few hours -- but avoid the temptation to race through it and savor the few, well-chosen words.