Picked this up in a Panera, of all places, to read while I ate my lunch. It's one of those books that saturates you in the environment she(?)'s creating -- gorgeous language. Must grab it from the library/bookshop and finish it off.

Update:

This was great, until the gimmick wore off. She follows this green accordion as it is passed on from immigrant family to immigrant family and the dregs of north america, over the generations, leaving horrible deaths and hardship in its wake. In the end though, I got bored of the taffy-like lyrical writing style (I can only take so much); I put it down, and didn't pick it up again.