Skinny Legs and All Meditations starts out like a simple

starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own

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and longing with inimitable humor and depth

Skinny Legs and All Meditations starts out like a simpleA gutsy, fun loving, and alarmingly provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author hailed by Financial Times as "one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world" "Hilarious." Milwaukee Journal "A euphoric wonderwork." Los Angeles Times "Flat out fabulous." Playboy An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations. . . . It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it's the axis around