You're Perry Hardaway. You lead a band. You haven't been laid in forever. And you assistant manage a Chicago music emporium called The Record Ha¼s. Your boss is a freak. Your staff ignores you. One co-worker is a skatekid with a penchant for customer harassment. Another can't keep his hands away from your tushie. Your band has changed its name more times than it's rehearsed. Your dream girl is a lesbian. Your love life is a farce. And that record store? It's going out of business. In seven days. A comic novel inhabiting the same universe as his acclaimed debut Jam, The Record Ha¼s is a melding of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity and Kevin Smith's Clerks. It's a commentary on the destruction of small business—how the end of one store can alter the lives of its customers, the neighborhood landscape, and the world of an everydude named Perry.