"May be the nearest thing to an American Ulysses . . . wildly funny and infinitely sad."
--Fintan O'Toole, The Irish times

Focusing on the lives of more than a dozen characters--among them the Oregon rave boy Skeeter; the progressive-thinking octogenarian Violet, remembering her life from her bohemian youth in prewar Paris to her jazz-clubbing in postwar Greenwich Village; and the street-smart prostitute Bushie, holding forth on the profanity of the world--Heather Woodbury has forged a unique kind of fiction that combines the immediacy of performance...