RaveThe Quarterly ConversationOloomi’s novel lodges us in the head of a paranoid lunatic and thus uncorks for us a different set of concerns ... The course of Fra Keeler’s progression, if it is progression at all, is not that of descent into paranoia but a struggle to ascend up the canyon wall of a consciousness known immediately as crazy. Thus, Oloomi’s novel takes the long-established conflict between reality and perception found in contemporary fiction much deeper ... By taking paranoia as a founding conceptual assumption, Oloomi’s novel pushes us forward into the problems associated with \'knowing.\' The novel’s symbolic fission of literature’s fundamental building blocks helps us see textuality as both evil and necessary. Evil because it is the cause of nerve-wracking duplicity and doubt, and necessary because, without it, knowledge is merely an oblivion.