Vineland
In the Reagan summer of 1984 an ageing northern-California hippie and his teenage daughter are flushed out of hiding when the federal prosecutor who once turned her mother into an informer comes looking again. A sixties film collective, a Japanese-American ninja working as a debt collector and a marijuana eradication task force are folded into one family's reckoning with what it sold and to whom. Pynchon's first book in seventeen years.
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