<p>This funny, exuberant novel captures the reader with the grand sweep of seven-foot-tall David “Lizard” Hochmeyer’s larger-than-life quest to unravel the mystery surrounding his parents’ deaths. It’s a journey laden with pro football stars, a master chef and his beautiful transvestite lover, a world-famous ballerina and her English rocker husband, and a sister who’s as brilliant as she is unstable. A wildly entertaining, plot-twisting novel of murder, seduction, and revenge—rich in incident, expansive in character, and lavish in setting—<i>Life Among Giants </i>is an exhilarating adventure. </p><p></p><p>Editors’ pick for Amazon’s Best of 2012 </p><p><i>Shelf Awareness </i>Top Ten Best Fiction of 2012 </p><p><i>Columbus Dispatch</i>’s Top Books of 2012 </p>