Apparently Daniel Pinkwater’s written a book called The Yggyssey which I strongly feel should be a book about me. Or, at a minimum, about some other member of the Yglesias clan. The subtitle, however, is “How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went, and Went There” and I never did anything remotely like that.
This sequel to The Neddiad (2007) is set in the same wacky landscape of 1950s Los Angeles. Iggy Birnbaum, who lives in a haunted hotel, discovers that the hotel’s ghosts are disappearing. After following a ghostly rabbit down a hole, Iggy and her friends encounter one strange Alice in Wonderland–type adventure after another and are nearly destroyed by witches until rescue comes from The Good Witch of the Northeast, who is “so good, she’s boring.” Once again, Pinkwater combines a goofy plot, myth and fairy tale references, and an obvious affection for yesteryear Los Angeles in a supernaturally funny read.
Too bad.
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