A review by jbliv
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon

4.0

Chabon trips over himself in the first third of the book, but the latter two thirds is fully engrossing. Out of the gate, Chabon takes us on a roller-coaster when a simple train would have sufficed; his literary gymnastics are too distracting. He then settles into the tale and lets the story drive, and the result is a joy.