Books

The White Tiger was good. Adiga has a great voice--very funny. This reminded me a little bit of Vernon God Little with the use of hilarious hyperreality to address controversial social and political issues, but in The White Tiger the reality is not so exaggerated, it's just India.

I happened upon a book fair last weekend in Philly. At the McSweeney's stall, I told the attending nerd that I really enjoyed Lemon, which they published a few years back. He told me that the book had created some internal controversy, probably because it didn't sell any copies. Apparently even a company that has a superhero supply store where they used to also sell puzzle pieces by the pound has its limits, and those limits include publishing a novel about a man who falls in love with a lemon. However, that just happens to be the plot of Lemon. It's probably more accurately described as a really funny novel about a man who has a total nervous breakdown that causes him to fall in love with a lemon.