Valhalla

Valhalla, by Paul Rudnick, intertwines two stories: the life of Ludwig, the foppish 1880’s “mad king” who squandered all his money building elaborate castles, and the fictional adventures of a wild 1930’s gay Texas teenager, James Avery. As the two travel through time in their own separate worlds, they find love, beauty, confusion and madness while matching wits with Rudnick’s usual plethora of zany characters including Sophie, the self-proclaimed “loneliest humpback in Europe.”