Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

This was a beautiful book to read, nearly prose poetry as it tells the convoluted stories of a family of sorts and the people who touch their lives. Though you will need to read it with either much care and obsessive archiving of the intricacies of the plot or a mind very open to abstract ideas and transitions, Divisadero paints a strangely clear picture of the people it describes. In fact, it is perhaps better absorbed than read. 273 pages long, available from my local library: Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje.