Steven Weissman

Joe Biden leaves the gate open and First Dog Bo escapes to globe trot through scenarios taken from the headlines of the day (the Boston Marathon Bombing, the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the Boko Haram kidnappings). Sasha and Malia pursue the dog--Sasha uses her psychic powers to focus the search-- and the girls fight and experience teenage angst. Obama sends Dennis Rodman to bring the dog back from Kim Jong Un's court, and the President, John Kerry and Joe Biden watch helplessly via satellite link while Dennis Rodman gets his ass kicked. It's a surreal and loosely told narrative. Very weird and wonderful shifts between geopolitical high drama and tediously mundane questions about shoes. This book is fantastic Not for the faint of heart.… (mer)