I read this book in too many sittings, and as a result it felt very disoerienting. It’s about Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans man from an aristocrartic family. We find him at the edge of thirty when he decides it is time to embark on a “search,” a kind of quest for meaning. The story that proceeds this decision is much more mundane than you might expect any kind of quest to be. The way Binx talks about moving through the world is peculiar. He has catch phrases and terms for names of life that usually go undescribed, and he lives in a perpetual state of dissatisfaction that life isn’t more like it is in movies.