Four interlocking narratives set in four American cities form a richly comic feast about love, academia, an elusive Tibetan novelist β and SOFA, a protest group so mysterious its very initials are open to interpretation.
Bad Teeth follows a cast of young literary men and women, each in a period of formation, in four very American cities β Brooklyn, Bloomington, Berkeley, and Bakersfield. A Pynchonesque treat, itβs four (or more) books in one: a bohemian satire, a campus comedy, a stonerβs reverie, and a quadruple love story. The plots coalesce around the search for a mysterious author, Jigme Drolma (βthe Tibetan David Foster Wallaceβ), who might in fact be a plagiarist. But how does the self-styled arch-magician Nicholas Bendix figure into this? What will happen when SOFA unleashes the βApocalypseβ? And whatβs to become of Lump, the cat?
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