Middling Thor had been like one of those meteorites you heard about that fall from space and land at the bottom of the ocean. Though it lies half buried in mud and half encrusted in a skin of plankton and mollusks, though it is warmed by vents in the earth and gives shelter to all manner of fish, at its heart lie the chemicals and elements, the sparkling mysterious stuff of outer space.

Chabon, Michael. Summerland: A Novel. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2002. (pp 260)

Summerland is a strange book. Airships, a kid who believes he’s an android, a guilt filled female sasquatch, Mustang league baseball. It’s wild.

Most chapters I have no idea where it’s going, but it’s not boring.