Wolf in White Van is a tale about loneliness and normality. There are three or four layers to this story which are equally powerful, the plot and subplot interlace naturally as part of the same story and the jumps back and forth are almost indistinguishable. I think the confusion on the narrative is on purpose, because, the same way the protagonist of the book is often lost and clueless, the reader is as well. This established, for me, a sense of connection with the main character that is difficult to convey in many narratives.

Sean, the main character, manages a mail based MMORPG called Trace Italian. The stories that run in parallel there seem to be representations of himself, how he's out of answers of what he has done, or how he left some of his beloved ones behind while he survived, deeply injured for life. It is amazing the subtleness that the author comes up with, and organically, you find yourself in the middle of everything.

Certainly not a book for everyone, and not for anytime.