After my hopeful disappointment with Water Music, I decided to give T.C. Boyle another try, and I'm glad I did so.

The protagonists of Talk Talk are a deaf woman named Dana and her non-deaf boyfriend, Bridger. Their lives are turned upside-down when Dana becomes a victim of identity theft, and the plot turns into a quest to make things right. As you might guess, this doesn't involve spending hundreds of pages on the phone with Equifax. Rather, Boyle takes us on a cross-country chase that intertwines the viewpoints of both protagonists with that of the thief. The ending isn't entirely a feel-good affair, but it feels real.

I'm looking forward to reading more of Boyle's work.