Bad Teeth

About this book

Four interlocking narratives set in four American cities form a richly comic feast about love academia an elusive Tibetan novelist and SOFA a protest group so mysterious its very initials are open to interpretation. "Bad Teeth" follows a cast of young literary men and women each in a period of formation in four very American cities Brooklyn Bloomington Berkeley and Bakersfield. A Pynchonesque treat it s four (or more) books in one: a bohemian satire a campus comedy a stoner s reverie and a quadruple love story. The plots coalesce around the search for a mysterious author Jigme Drolma ( the Tibetan David Foster Wallace ) who might in fact be a plagiarist. But how does the self-styled arch-magician Nicholas Bendix figure into this? What will happen when SOFA unleashes the Apocalypse ? And what s to become of Lump the cat?"