If you read Roger Simon’s latest novel, "The Goat," avoid reading it on an airplane. I burst out laughing enough to alarm everyone else in the cabin. Simon has cooked up a frolicking, comic fantasy with lots to say.
"The Goat," otherwise known as “the greatest of all time,” sends you down a rabbit hole where a seventy-something writer and tennis hobbyist suffers a debilitating tennis injury and botched surgery. Instead of finding a cure for his pain in modern Western medicine, Dan Gelber stumbles into the storefront of a mysterious Eastern herbalist named Gombo in a strip mall in the San Fernando Valley.
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