"A ferociously inventive comic novel" ( Vanity Fair ) from the prize-winning author of Let the Dog Drive and Big Bang . The trade paperback edition of David Bowman's prize-winning first novel, Let the Dog Drive, has developed a cult following. Now Bowman's exuberantly praised second novel—a hard-boiled comedy about love, abduction, and child care, set in a future where electricity has disappeared and fertility is on the wane, but human passions are as messy as ever—is also in trade paperback.