Ghost Lights by Lydia Millet

"Surreal, darkly hilarious and profound." -San Francisco Chronicle
Ghost Lights stars an IRS bureaucrat named Hal-a man baffled by his wife's obsession with her missing employer. In a moment of drunken heroism, Hal embarks on a quest to find the man, embroiling himself in a surreal tropical adventure (and an unexpected affair with a beguiling German woman). Ghost Lights is Lydia Millet at her best-beautifully written, engaging, full of insight into the heartbreaking devotion of parenthood and the charismatic oddity of human behavior.