a heavily researched, fictionalized but imo very plausible story of lee harvey oswald and the kennedy assassination. i read White Noise last year and while i liked it it didn't really strike me, but this one knocked me off my feet.
oswald as a character is fascinating, the man who wants to be history, set apart his whole life, set a part his whole life. too foreign for america, too foreign for russia, angry, sly, clueless, motivations barely even known to himself. ruby as a kind of mirror image.
highly recommended
I read white noise years ago and found it kinda pretentiously written so it put me off his other work, this one sounds worth reading though..
this one is more prosaic than white noise but i thought the dialogue is a lot better written. the dialogue in white noise was the most annoying and pretentious part of it to me so it felt like a major improvement