Book 5: The Brooklyn Follies

In The Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster has created a Brooklyn wonderland inhabited by our narrator, a retired life-insurance salesman (who isn't dying anymore), and his cohorts who include, but are not limited to: his nephew, a drag queen book clerk, their ex-con boss, a sometimes mute little girl, a jewelry-maker, a waitress with a domineering husband, and -- no, wait for it -- some people who own (but don't run) a B&B. It's wonderful, funny, touching, and remarkable -- and I wish it went on for 200 more pages.

Buy it now, read it tomorrow. You won't regret a minute of it, until it's over and you want to read it again.

http://www.amazon.com/Brooklyn-Follies-Novel-Paul-Auster/dp/0312426232/sr=8-1/qid=1166585629/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-1976670-1036856?ie=UTF8&s=books