"Telemachus, archetype of the boy left behind, is portrayed in this novel by Bobby Bacca, whose father, M.M.Bacca, the famous poet, has died. Bobby, an artist, has gone in search of his father's past and travels within the memories of M.M.Bacca's closest friends while his own memories intersect with the effects of trauma still pervading the adult lives of his contemporaries. This "sidebar of an odyssey" modernizes the abandonment and allure for might that Simone Weil takes as her foundation for declaring Homer a pacifist poet. Though Mac Bacca is no hero, nor is he a Leopold Bloom, his aberrant and twisted personality takes us on a ride over some strange country along the neglected yet familiar path of the male soul"--