By far the best book I read in a long time.

The author named his son Ellison and the book begins with an Invisible Man riff with some TS Elliot. The where parts that made me think of Tin Drum because the self described freak of a first person narrator witnesses a major war and ends feeling homeless. It was little Lolita too in the narrators seering critique of American culture and lob of the English language. That the narrator seduces a young girl and commits murder.

I want to read more Vietnam books. I am checking out the Decent Interval and The Phoenix Program.