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by: Thomas Pynchon
 * __The Crying of Lot 49__**

I chose this novel because i love to read and this book looked interesting. In the beginning of the book, the main character, Mrs. Oedipas Maas, discovers that an old friend of hers has died and named her as the executor.The story is told in third person and it is set in the early 1900's in the United States. The setting is important because it mentions different cities in the United States and what has happened the year before, when WWII was happening with the Germans and Nazis. The first conflict that Oedipas faces is that she does not know why she is in her old friend, Pierce Inverarity's, will. She also does not know how or where he died or what she is going to do now that he has named her the executor.The author jolds the reader in by giving a kind of suspense as to what all this means, who is this Pierce character, or why is Oedipas in his will, there are many unanswered quetions that the author keeps the answers hidden in the story so that you have to read on to find the answers.