I don’t know, I just didn’t enjoy this a lot. I picked it up because I loved the essays and stories I’d read by Lethem in various magazines. I admire its scope/ambition, but ultimately I found the writing style somewhat exhausting. I found myself caring a little about the characters but not a lot.

As a side note, I thought that when the main character (Dylan Ebdus) was narrating, it was actually the voice of Lethem rather than the character. Cuz we hadn’t been presented with any information indicating that the character would know some of the historical and pop-culture references he supposedly thinks. Just my opinion, of course!