Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Just finished Michael Chabon's "Mysteries of Pittsburgh".  It's a pretty good read, dealing with the post-graduating summer of Art Bechstein, who finds himself torn between two lovers, four friends, and a father who works for the Pittsburgh mob.  Some of the critical praise calls him a 1980s Holden Caulfield, but that goes a bit too far.  It's not a classic like "Catcher in the Rye" but it's a good book with a lot of great turns of phrase and plotting, and shows the promise Chabon fulfilled in "Wonder Boys", "Kavalier and Klay" and "The Yiddish Policeman's Union."