About the book: 2009 / Jonathan Miles is a new name in English literature, but there have not been such bright debuts for a very long time. Miles has already been compared to the living classic of English literature Martin Amis - for his brilliant style, for his knock-down black humor and amazing humanism. We have all had to hang around at the airport at least once, waiting for a delayed flight and suffering from existential angst. For Benjamin Ford, the hero of American Airlines, a flight delay becomes the ruin of his life. Plunging into a state outside of time and space, he begins to write a complaint to the airline. But an ordinary bureaucratic complaint turns into a story of life, ups and downs, rare moments of happiness. With humor, he talks about his first and only love, about his childhood, about his daughter, whom he has not seen for two decades and whose wedding he is in a hurry to attend. The hero, and along with him the reader, is thrown into laughter, then into tears. It is unlikely that anyone else will be able to write such a brilliant novel-complaint.