Ed King, the brand-new novel by Bainbridge’s award-winning author of Snow Falling on Cedars, is practically Franzenien in its suburban salaciousness. Mild-mannered Walter knocks up his au pair, and the orphaned child goes on to marry his mother and rule as a tech tycoon…in Seattle. Of course it’s set in Seattle: opening in the 1960s with a trip to the World’s Fair, and running through today’s tech boom and beyond (to 2017). The book just came out yesterday, and it’s already been called both dazzling and a flat, misguided paraphrase of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.

So which is it? Find out tonight at 7 when David Guterson reads from Ed King at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park. He’ll also be at Elliott Bay Book Company tomorrow at 7, and at University Bookstore on November 3 at 7. Admission is free.