Harris turns his trip to Timbuktu into a harrowing and intensely endearing comedy of errors, crammed with vibrant characters and viscerally human encounters. The author's voice is matter-of-fact, yet colorful, a kind of iconoclastic everyman casually narrating events the typical everyman would shrink into the shadows to avoid. Brazen humor buttresses heavy topics, and the line between silliness and seriousness is lovingly blurred, resulting in a tale with grit, glitter, and giggles that you can lap up in one sitting.
From the director/writer of Rubin and Ed, Beaver Trilogy, Plan 10 From Outer Space...which are all great movies. Super-clever run thru Timbuktu and Utah. Pictures mixed into dialogue, haven't ever seen a format quite like it.