thataway

They went Piscataway — er, thataway, off for greener pa$ture$ in the Big Ten.

“Sometimes he slipped and his mind went thataway,” Colson Whitehead writes about Ray Carney, the crime-adjacent Harlem furniture salesman at the center of his new novel, “Harlem Shuffle.”

Whitehead’s own mind has famously gone thataway through nine other books that don’t much resemble one another, but this time he’s hit upon a setup that will stick.

The minimal but curvaceous 102-inch Thataway sofa features an easy-flip cushion that creates a bed with a touch of the hand.

To prepare, he said, “I put headphones on and a live microphone, and I played guitar with him and sang harmony with him on all his recordings. I learned all the songs thataway. It was like I had been on a little tour with him.”