The best book written in our lifetime

"Early this year, the Book Review's editor, Sam Tanenhaus, sent out a short letter to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to please identify 'the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.'"

The winner? Here's a hint: we've all read it.

If you have time to kill here at the beginning of break, you might want to read Margaret Atwood's lovely review of it.