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
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