![]() ![]() In many ways, Telegraph Avenue feels like Chabon's first book of the new millennium, his first to speak so adroitly to the anxieties and emotional challenges of our time. It's a relatively short scene, but Obama's presence – and his most famous catchphrase, "change" – seems to linger at the outer corners of this novel's soul. ![]() At a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser, Obama ducks through the back door of a posh house in northern California to steal a quiet moment to himself, passing time by listening to the hired jazz band as they warm up. Just weeks after his historic speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, which announced his vision of an America unified against the divisions of race and class and thrust him on to the national stage, the future president is campaigning in California, making his first run at higher office. A little over 100 pages into Michael Chabon's magnificent new novel, a young, road-weary state senator by the name of Barack Obama makes an unexpected appearance. ![]()
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