A Nebbadoon review by Joan Ellis. Paul Auster's beautiful set of interlocking stories is directed with affecting subtlety by Wayne Wang and acted by a notable cast that creates an extraordinary feeling of life as it is really lived.
Chatter is the medium of their connection.
The smoke shop offers its customers both diversion and friendship. Augie and Bill, Bill and Rashid, Augie and Ruby, Bill and April. They walk through each other's lives with gentle manners and decent intentions. Each, in some particular way of his own, takes care of the other. Each gives a gift that changes another's life.