As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem

Publisher: Doubleday

Date: February 17, 1997

I’m not going to go too far into this. I liked the book enough to recommend it, but not enough to include it in my favorites of this, or any other year. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I read Lethem’s Men & Cartoons earlier this year and really enjoyed it. I can’t say I liked this book nearly as much.

The story revolves around the quarrelous love triangle of a man, a woman, and a pseudo-scientific entity named Lack. Lack is a small black hole, created in a university lab, which acts as a gateway to infinite other alternate universes. Of course, Lack is a super-sexy newsmaker with a personality of its own. It is powerful and unpredictable and seems to attract obsession from anyone who encounters it.

Anyway, a funny read, and at just shy of 200 pages, a breeze to get through.