I reread Tropic of Orange and was amazed how its portrayal of LA all the more holds up in terms of the grids and forces the novel engages with via its crazed set of characters and criss-crossing emplottings and imaginative methods. In larger contexts of urban literature on the Pacific Rim, this reader admired the play of learning and fantasy to create an apocalyptic yet hopeful grid of crazed multicultural LA where the south bleeds into the north and vice versa creating inter-spaces and modes of adaptation combining old and new. Urban sublime for sure. It is more "borderlands" Latino/Asian CA than anything I could mention on the literary Rim; it's a feat, will outlast many novels that come and go with yesterday's news

Brilliant and beautiful! Definitely the best book about LA in the last ten years. Not your typical wannabe Hollywood drama or wild drug haze. This is the real Los Angeles. The structure is unlike anything I have ever seen in a book before. You can read it straight through, or follow the Hypertext and follow each of the seven characters through their own experience. The plot is simply extraordinary, with touches of magical realism and noir fiction; an orange growing directly on the Tropic of Cancer makes its way north, completely distrubpting everywhere between it and Los Angeles. Between the lines of the story is the complexities of culture and stereotypes in LA and the fragility of the town itself. Everyone should read this book!

I was assigned Tropic of Orange in a class and found myself totally engrossed in the scewed story lines. if you like books that make you stop and think, what the ... is going on here?! Then you will LOVE this book. Great criticism on the US, media and Los Angeles too!