The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Extensive is perhaps the best word to use to describe The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Looking into such matters as anxiety, art, advertising, capitalism, Hollywood, loneliness, loss, war, physical disability, fatherhood, family, homosexuality, religion, escape, and exile, the novel covers social concerns that are almost as wide as the geographical experience of Joseph Kavalier, one of the two protagonists of the book, who in the course of the story finds himself in Prague, …

…can quiet the feelings of anxiety and inadequacy. By the end of the story, they understand how the unique family unit that they make together, Sammy, Joe, Rosa and their son Tommy, and the love that they share has a transformative power, and even if Sammy does not physically stay with the family, his presence is a part of them all and each part of their unit has been shaped by each of the others.