JeanneB -
This has been an all time favorite of mine for many years. Each character is eccentric and besides being hilarious, each is well developed. There is no way to predict what is going to happen next. It is astonishing how seemingly unrelated characters impact one another. It is not a matter of all the characters meeting up at the end (they don't), it is that each person's misadventure leads to another persons undoing throughout this wild and wonderful story. I have not read this book in at least ten years, but the people and what happens to them are still vivid in my memory.
