Icelander falls into that category of McSweeney's postmodern fiction that people seem to either love or hate. I happen to love it. Our Heroine, as she is called throughout, is the grown up girl sleuth and daughter of Indiana Jones-style, adventurer/ anthropologist parents. She is faced with a nemesis who is murdering family friends. What I like about Long is that his postmodern ploys don't get too cloying or overprecocious. He still tells and entertaining story, in a unique and slightly off-kilter setting. I enjoyed it immensely. ( )

Going into this you know that the novel is going to be a murder mystery with a post modern bent. The victims name is MacGuffin and the protagonists name is Our Heroine. With that said I enjoyed it. As with most po-mo books I know that I missed a bunch of stuff and am going to have to re-read the book and dig a little deeper. I will gladly do so. Two words for you, skaldic karoake. ( )