Bottle Grove: A Novel

This Is A Story About Two Marriages. Or Is It? It Begins With A Wedding, Held In The Small San Francisco Forest Of Bottle Grove - Bestowed By A Wealthy Patron For The Public Good, Back When People Did Such Things. Here Is A Cross Section Of Lives, A Stretch Of Urban Green Where Ritzy Guests, Lustful Teenagers, Drunken Revelers, And Forest Creatures All Wait For The Sun To Go Down. The Girl In The Corner Slugging Vodka From A Cough-syrup Bottle Is Padgett - She's Keeping Something Secreted In The Woods. The Couple At The Altar Are The Newly Named Nickels, As The Bride Is Emphatic About Changing Her Name - There Is Plenty About Her Old Life She Is Ready To Forget. Set In San Francisco As The Tech-boom Is Exploding, Bottle Grove Is A Sexy, Skewering Dark Comedy About Two Unions - One Forged Of Love And The Other Of Greed - And About The Forces That Can Drive Couples Together, Into Dependence, And Then Into Sinister, Even Supernatural Realms. Add One Ominous Shape-shifter To The Mix, And You Get A Delightful And Strange Spectacle: A Story Of Scheming And Yearning And Foibles And Love And What We End Up Doing For It - And Everyone Has A Secret. Looming Over It All Is The Income Disparity Between San Francisco's Tech Community And . . . Everyone Else.--publisher Description. Daniel Handler.

Ideal for readers interested in general fiction.