Abramsesque plot revolves around a strange and powerful energy force (are there any other kinds?) that must be stopped or, depending on how you feel about mysterious energy forces, encouraged.
Set in America in the not-too-distant future, the novel braided countless characters and ideas into a deliriously strange and self-consciously literary plot, involving a tennis academy, a recovery facility, a dysfunctional family and a debilitatingly gripping film.