Description: Three narrative strands are interwoven in this wildly smart and playful novel: the autobiography of Abby Zinzo, a brilliant, transgendered aesthete who has lived a life "devoted almost entirely to my jewelry ...a life consumed by adornment -- by putting it on and taking if off, all the while transfixed by the strange light that jewelry casts on those who wear it"; the story of a bizarre relationship between two men equally unsure of their sexuality; and Zinzo's college thesis, rewritten time and again throughout his life: an erudite analysis of the meaning of jewelry from ancient times to the present that incorporates the ideas of, among others, Elizabeth Taylor, Friedrich Hegel, Katharine Hepburn, Immanuel Kant, and the Duchess of Windsor.

An ingeniously presented novel and cultural critique, Jewelry Talks is filled with the pleasures of the delightfully weird and uncanny.

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