A work from a master at the height of his powers, channeling Pynchon and mixing Melvin Van Peebles, 1970's kung-fu films and comic books, reaching down to find something deeper, more human, written with prose that makes you want to either never write a sentence again or quit your job, your relationships and all contact with the outside world and sit in a chair in your basement until you figure out how he did it. Two friends - one white, the other black - run a record shop in a neighbourhood that straddles Berkely and Oakland, a strip of land that has seen better days and is now threatened by a local boy made good, a former NFL quarterback who wants to re-vitalize the area by dropping a retail monolith into the middle. It doesn't quite reach the level of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, but the level it does reach is worth the read.
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