Titles can lead you astray

An oddly titled novel, The Repossession Mambo, has kept appearing in book and review lists, and I’m ashamed to say my eyes flitted over it simply because of the title. It sounded like a Latin American book or some obscure memoir. In this weekend’s Australian newspaper, review George Williams puts me right, calling what turns out to be a dark sci-fi comedy ‘a jigsaw puzzle of a life.’ What’s more, the author, Eric Garcia, wrote the Anonymous Rex series, which I loved, and Matchstick Men, ditto. So onto the list goes The Repossession Mambo.