Then We Came to the End is the first novel by Joshua Ferris. It was released by Little, Brown and Company on March 1, 2007. A satire of the American workplace, it is similar in tone to Don DeLillo's Americana, even borrowing DeLillo's first line for its title.

It takes place in a Chicago advertising agency that is experiencing a downturn at the end of the 1990s Internet boom. Ferris employs a first-person-plural narrative.

Critical reaction [ edit ]

The book was greeted with positive reviews from GQ,[1] The New Yorker,[2] Esquire,[3] and Slate.[4] The book was named one of the Best Books of 2007 by The New York Times.[5]

Time magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Fiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #2.[6][7]

The book also won the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel.

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