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Penny Alcott-Lee is a rising academic star—brilliant, methodical, and firmly rooted in science. Her project to observe an uncontacted tribe from afar is meant to be a triumph of technology over myth. There are no gods. No monsters. Just culture, waiting to be studied. But when her mentor insists on bringing in Ryan McKenzie—a quiet, battle-scarred ex-soldier with a past steeped in covert operations—Penny reluctantly agrees. Ryan’s job is simple: infiltrate the island and discreetly install the surveillance equipment. No contact. No risk. Just precision work. But then he vanishes.

Jerome. K. Jerome allows us to laugh, with and at, both himself and ourselves, in his writing. As we peruse his “Idle Thoughts” on subjects ranging from babies to ambition, from dogs to poverty, we find that the dust of over a hundred years have not dimmed the mirror in which we look. Jerome, as in his other comic works, presents a seeming stream of consciousness that can shift in a moment from the ridiculous to the sublime, from self-deprecation to intense longing.