Berg, Carol -- Flesh and Spirit
I ought to remember more about this than I do, because I liked it a
lot. Plus I just bought the sequel (but haven't read it yet). Oh,
right: self-centered drug addict attempts to stay the hell away from
his family and, preferably, the entire world. His family and the world
do not cooperate. Despite my description, the guy is quite a
sympathetic character (it helps that his family is not). He stumbles
across a plot to save the world -- via librarians, always a win for me
-- and everything gets more complicated from there. Magic, scary
elf/nature-spirits, mysterious Dark Lord, and I've just talked myself
into reading the sequel next.
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