Not much to say about this one. I really like T.C. Boyle, but I'm used to reading things of his that are a little weirder. He tends to take normal situations and twist one thing about them and then see what the effect might be. That's how non-Euclidean geometry works - you change one thing, like saying parallel lines can intersect once, and then you see how it changes everything else about the system. T.C. Boyle does that with life. In this book, one of the characters is deaf, and it profoundly changes the way she interacts with the other characters, but there's nothing supernatural about the strangeness of this novel.
I liked that it didn't end the way I thought it would - it was a bit more unusual than that, which I appreciated.
It was also funny because as soon as I read this, I heard T.C. Boyle on NPR and the next day read an article by him in Smithsonian. It's like meeting someone in a small town and then you see them everywhere. I'm sure T.C. and I will meet again.
This counts toward my 100+ Challenge.
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