"Set against the backdrop of Obama's ascendancy to the presidency . .
. A complex and imaginative literary tapestry about family and identity"
(Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
At once immediate and epic, funny and devastating, this new novel by the
author of Shadowbahn is a transcendent dispatch from the intersection
of art and politics, passion and memory.
One November night in a canyon outside Los Angeles, Zan Nordhoc--a
failed novelist turned pirate radio DJ--sits before the television with
his small, adopted black daughter, watching the election of his
country's first black president, Barack Obama. In the nova of this
historic moment, with an economic recession threatening their home, Zan,
his wife, and their son set out to solve the enigma of the little girl's
life. When they find themselves scattered and strewn across two
continents, a mysterious stranger with a secret appears, who sends the
story spiraling forty years into the past.
Sweeping from 1960s London and '70s Berlin to twenty-first-century
California, and the beginning-of-civilization Ethiopia, These Dreams of
You chronicles not only a family struggling to salvage its bonds but a
twelve-year-old boy readying himself for what the years to come hold.
"Truly electrifying. In its gorgeous, vivid prose and its acutely
sensitive soul, These Dreams of You shows us just what a novel can
still do in our own crazy times."--The Boston Globe
"Drama filled with exuberance."--The Washington Post
"The four Nordhocs who provide the messy, vibrant heart of These Dreams
of You make up a representative tableau for the new millennium: the
American family as mash-up."--The New York Times Book Review
