February - The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

This February we will dig into Thomas Pynchon’s 1960s satire The Crying of Lot 49.

At only 185 pages it’s a nice short one for the shortest month of the year, and should be available via the library or online retailers.

Here’s the spiel courtesy of Goodreads:

“Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness, and marriage combine to leave Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the Crying of Lot 49.”

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