Villa Incognito

Imagine there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women share a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine them part of a novel that only Tom Robbins could createa magically crafted work as timeless as myth yet as topical as the latest international threat. But no matter how hard you try, youll never imagine what youll find inside the Villa Incognito: a tilt-a-whirl of identity, masquerade, and disguise that dares to pull off the false mustache of the world and reveal the even greater mystery underneath. For neither the mists of Laos nor the Bangkok smog, neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco, neither the murk of the intelligence community nor the mummery of the circus can obscure the pure linguistic phosphor that illuminates every page of one of Americas most consistently surprising and inventive writers.