Broccoli for breakfast is not recommended unless it puts you in touch with central truths about human nature. And in this comic/serious masterpiece, that's exactly what it does for Professor Wilson Ablong, rudely irreverent Nobel laureate and internationally renowned medical hero.

Salant's poetic explorations are surreal, comic, deep, towering, and allusive, effortlessly moving from Dostoevsky, Gauss, and DNA to personal laundry.