How to describe this book? A boy who's family was abandoned by his father grows up to become a bookseller, finds love, and resolves to be a better father to his child than his was. All this is threaded through with weirdness, that expands into out and out horror. But like all the LaValle books I've read, this one sets up what seem like familiar narratives, only to subvert them in unexpected ways. In the end, a book about generational trauma, and a good one.