Publisher's Synopsis
From the bestselling author of the award-winning WHITE TEETH Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs - a small blip in a huge worldwide network of desire. It is his business to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, occasionally fake them - to give people what they want: a little piece of Fame. But what does Alex want? Only the return of his father, the reinstatement of some kind of God-type figure, the end of religion, something for his headache, three different girls, infinite grace and the rare autograph of forties movie actress Kitty Alexander. With fries. Through London and then New York, Alex is sent on a paper-trail, searching for the only autograph that ever mattered to him...Alex is on his way to finding enlightenment, otherwise known as some part of himself that cannot be signed or sold...
