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Feb 12, 2016talltimt rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Irving has a wonderful comic sensibility. "Avenue of Mysteries" is about a boy and girl, half-sibs raised in a garbage dump (!) in Oaxaca, Mexico. [I love saying that name: OH-ah-HAH-cah.] She can read minds (literally) and speaks in an unintelligible mumble, except to the brother who is her interpreter. He is crippled when his step-father runs over his foot, becomes a famous novelist in America, and has sexual visitations from a mother and daughter who are . . . um . . . I have no idea who or what they are: ghosts, figments of his imagination, real women? You’ll have to decide. And that's not to mention the transvestite prostitute that marries a self-flagellating celibate wanna-be priest, a statue of the Virgin Mary that frightens their mother to death . . . and a circus. This novel IS a circus!