Lev comes from Eastern Europe to seek work, leaving behind his mother, daughter and Rudi, his crazy friend who lives for his battered Chevrolet. He battles grinding hours in restaurants and on an asparagus farm for small wages, encountering hostility and unexpected kindness in a baffling world of casual sex and an obsession with celebrity, until ultimately discovering that the road he is travelling is leading him home. Absorbing, beautifully written, funny and deeply moving.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 47 September 2008 ) |
