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Telegraph Avenue is a major commercial thoroughfare in a minor California city. It is also the setting of Michael Chabon's savory slice in the life of Archie, the half-owner of a used record store, struggling with impending fatherhood, and Gwen, his wife, a fast-talking, hormonally-challenged midwif...
#readchabon read-along, April 2013; review and link TK
Let me start by pointing out that I did not put this book on either my race shelf or my class-poverty shelf because, while Chabon spends a lot of time ranting about both race and poverty, he doesn't really say much about any of it. The whole book felt a lot like Luther's rant on the migration of bl...
Truly insightful, gorgeous writing line by line but too many characters racing around in too many different loops without enough of a compelling plot to keep me interested - maybe he was trying to be Dickensian, but I had a hard time staying with the tale(s)... I lost interest and didn't finish.
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