Victor Lavalle's Buttonhole Book

I wasn't quite certain what a buttonhole book was, I had never run into that turn. But NPR has a feature where they talk to writers about those books that they passionately urge others to read.

For Victor Lavalle, it's Kenzaburo Oe's 1958 novella "Prize Stock," collected in Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness.

One of my buttonhole books is Orange Laughter by Leone Ross. That book is so wonderfully crazy.

What's yours?