A guy walks into a yogurt parlor at his local mall and finds Steve Martin on duty. If you could channel the latter's brain as he recorded his dreams in a way that explained life and death and chance while he was reading a Japanese comic book, then you might--just might--begin to sense the funny/sad/bittersweet/surreal world of Jonathan, the kind and earnest narrator of Jim Krusoe's liberating and original new novel, Girl Factory.
