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An exuberant collection of short stories written in a variety of styles for children and adults who act like children, this slim volume of short-short stories toys with our latest obsessions about stars, marriage, myths, the CIA, the mafia, success, murder, sex, murderous sex, the L.A. movie industry, big trucks, angels, weird paranoias, romance, bread, flowers, the Blues, singing birds, male bonding and violence, genetics, Irish History and the intricacies of transporting Japanese show-fish. Among other things."

A man identified only as The Visitor stumbles across the site of an ancient Native American village during a nature hike in the Oakland Hills. The man returns to the site and attempts to daylight one of the holes there when he thinks he sees something metallic at the bottom. In his excitement he has an apparent stroke or heart attack, passes out, and wakes up in a meadow where a man called The Narrator tells the history of California from the beginning of Time up to 1915 on the first day of the Pan American Exposition in San Francisco. The narration features the adventures of three families...