The story of a young man who just can’t make up his mind

Indecision

By Benjamin Kunkel

Random House, 241 pages, $21.95

Reviewers call this novel a bildungsroman, and the narrator might agree–or disagree–with the assessment. That’s the point, of course, in this fresh novel about a downwardly mobile preppy. In these pages, Holden Caulfield has been updated, adapted and given a sense of humor.