This is a trickster novel at its finest. We meet Adam Gordon, grad student poet on a fellowship in Spain in spring of 2004 drunk, high, and on and off medication on his way to party at the start of this novel. We are meant quickly to understand that he is highly intelligent and kind of a moron at the same time, that he is a consummate liar and manipulator, and that he is also a kind of good poet, but that he’s terrified of […]