Meghan’s Reviews > The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay > Status Update

"Sammy performed the rapid series of operations--which combined elements of the folding of wet laundry, the shoveling of damp ashes, and the swallowing of a secret map on the point of captured by enemy troops--that passed, in his mother's kitchen, for eating." There are many details in this book, often seemingly inconsequential, that paint such a picture that it takes my breath away.