Tropic of Orange

Find this and other Reviews at In Tori Lex This book was a wonderful rumination of what unites and divides us. The characters explore class, race, real or imagined borders and the violent realities of poverty.  Emi and Gabriel are a couple who chase after stories, and Buzzworm is a man who has the sk......more

This is not a good book. Published in 1997, it reads today like a parody of an overly-academic attempt at fiction that just can't resist wearing its recently acquired postmodern learning on its sleeve. It's overflowing with all-too-obvious and on-the-nose references to standard hits of late-nineties......more