Looking for some contemporary fiction in the vein of Dickens, Nabokov, Irving and Toole? Then check this out. The man Jack (not a bad name as four letter words go) denizen of the Baghdad by the Bay, masseuse, healer, and bungling shaman wannabe is about to make a big decision. Not temperamentally accustomed to making decisions great or small he will be faced with a choice that will change him, those around him and perhaps the very fabric of existence...