This book captures the dot-com Pacific Northwest and the experiences of two vastly different characters brought together by circumstance. The author gets the tone perfectly (GetaShack.com!) and though some may feel ends are not suitably tied up, I thought the book was really well written and I gobbled the prose up in a couple hours. A good read with clever dialogue. I will definitely get more by Raban.

The story is set in Seattle in 1999 at the height of the dot.com boom. The livelihoods of two inhabitants, one a Hungarian-born Englishman who hosts a radio show and the other, an illegal Chinese immigrant eager to rise from exploited to exploiter, collide in a visionary tale of fateful coincidences in an alien culture.