Language has invaded reality, remaking it; a
strange sign has invoked a plot. The familiar cause and effect world was
displaced by a seemingly nonsensical one the moment they turned off the
main highway toward Agapa but now what is holding this tale together? Not
much, except the voice of the narrator and his quest for meaning, but it
is a quest now completely undermined by incongruity, irresolvable mystery
and at the end a kind of comic terror ..one of our major contemporary
artists has discovered his territory Robert Coover NY Times