I experienced the story as I experience my memories of visits to San Francisco: flashes of photogenic scenes with odd people doing puzzling things. They might or might not understand the meaning of what they do and how they are seen by others, but I certainly don't understand as the outsider. Whi...
I probably owe this one another read to see if it strikes me more as a four-star book. It initially did. The setting is vivid and the characters are quirky and believable. Rounding the bend on the last quarter or so of the book I was fully expecting it to get those four stars. But the way the loo...