Welcome to The Big Jewel, where we define "magic realism" as filing a tax return one week and getting a refund the next. That's probably not the way Gabriel Garcia Marquez defines it, though. We suspect he prefers to think of "magic realism" as whatever might make Mitch Hyman's dead-on parody of one of his best-known novels disappear. It's not "One Hundred Years of Solitude," it's... One Hundred Years of Suburbia By Mitch Hyman I remember the day Uncle Rámon took us down to see the mall. "People say the mall is infinite," he explained as he led us children toward the atrium. "And that a man could spend a lifetime there going from store to store, and still not find the one having the thing he wanted, and also in his size... For the full article please visit http://www.thebigjewel.com To unsubscribe from The Big Jewel's Hilarious Weekly Email please send an email with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to neilpasricha@xxxxxxxxx