Description
For readers of Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Egan, Nathan Hill, and Gabrielle Zevina literary novel with bite, heart, humor, and a voice all its own.
San Francisco, the late 1990s. The internet is minting millionaires, Critical Mass is clogging the streets, and the hype sounds a lot like today's. Enter Joe Hartformer revolutionary, current hustler, lousy father. When Joe bets his daughter Emma's fortune on an insider stock tip, he sets in motion a story of schemers and dreamers, artists and avengers, in a city on the brink of everything.
Emmasharp, funny, and quietly fiercefinds her true family among the city's troublemakers: a Polish performance artist with dynamite in her heart, a former revolutionary teaching women the art of the counterstrike, and a Vietnam bomb-defuser who's seen this movie before.
Social history with a grin, a fairy tale with teeth, and pure pleasure page to page, The Big Chihuahua is a book to root for, full of characters you'll hate to leave.
San Francisco, the late 1990s. The internet is minting millionaires, Critical Mass is clogging the streets, and the hype sounds a lot like today's. Enter Joe Hartformer revolutionary, current hustler, lousy father. When Joe bets his daughter Emma's fortune on an insider stock tip, he sets in motion a story of schemers and dreamers, artists and avengers, in a city on the brink of everything.
Emmasharp, funny, and quietly fiercefinds her true family among the city's troublemakers: a Polish performance artist with dynamite in her heart, a former revolutionary teaching women the art of the counterstrike, and a Vietnam bomb-defuser who's seen this movie before.
Social history with a grin, a fairy tale with teeth, and pure pleasure page to page, The Big Chihuahua is a book to root for, full of characters you'll hate to leave.