IZ

by Robert Davis

"The problem was, I wanted to be an operator like my father. I didn't want to be a sucker. But everything I did, I kept turning into a sucker." And so begins 13 year old Isador Aronson's comic odyssey, which is complicated by the possibility he may be a musical prodigy. One of his brothers wears dresses, the other has religious visions, one uncle has too many wives, another sees ghosts, and another collects cockroaches, while Grandma talks to visitors from outer space. While Izzy finds himself in the middle of a kidnapping, the Vietnam War is at its peak, and so is the world's insanity.

268 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995