The acclaimed author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn turns a keen, affectionate eye on the paradoxes of love and art in this romantic farce set among the members of an aspiring Los Angeles rock band. Lucinda Hoekke works eight excruciating hours a day at The Complaint Line. One frequent caller starts to captivate Lucinda with his off-colour ruminations and opaque self-reflections.

In defiance of the rules, Lucinda and 'The Complainer' arrange a face-to-face meeting - and fall desperately in love. Lucinda also plays bass in an alternative band, whose lead singer, Matthew, works at a zoo and recently kidnapped a kangaroo to save it from ennui. Their gifted-but-conflicted lyricist, Bedwin, is suffering from writer's block, and so Lucinda 'suggests' to him some of The Complainer's philosophical musings.

When Bedwin transforms these into brilliant songs, the band gets its big break, but The Complainer insists on joining the band, with disastrous consequences for all.

A comedy of mismatched lovers, with delicious echoes of Jane Austen's Emma, You Don't Love Me Yet is another exhibition of Jonathan Lethem's prodigious range and talent.
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