A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava

Garth Risk Hallberg at The Millions asks:

Is Sergio de la Pava’s A Naked Singularity the first great self-published novel of the new century? Aren’t you at least a little bit curious?

I am curious! Tell me more.

via  The Quarterly Conversation:

Reviewed:
A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava. Xlibris. 692 pp., $23.99.

At the end of 2008, Sergio De La Pava self-published his novel A Naked Singularity, a postmodern, re-envisioned, linguistic assault on the standard crime/heist/legal thriller. It’s very good—one of the best and most original novels of the decade.

It’s narrated by a public defender named Casi. Between his ruminations on boxing, television, philosophical conundrums, the existence of God, the legal system, ethics, morality, how to make empanadas, why you should never talk to the cops, and diverse other subjects, he processes the cases of the criminals who come through his office and works pro bono on a death penalty case involving a mentally retarded man named Jalen Kingg, who is imprisoned in Alabama, while elsewhere in New York an infant has been kidnapped and Casi’s downstairs neighbors are working on bizarre psychological experiments.