The Humour Club discussion

A new member here, learning my way around the site...My new novel is serio-comic, or comic-serio: Marx, to escape debtor's prison and fund Revolution, joins the California Gold Rush. He hogs the book's title, but the main character is his seventeen-year-old sidekick. Quixote- and Panza-like, they go off on a picaresque adventure in the Sierra Nevada. A Booklife by Publishers'
Weekly "Editor's Pick" and a Kirkus star review.