In a comic episode reminiscent of Seinfeld, one character in this work demands that his lover choose between him and her cat Charlemagne.  
After one character's lover in this work dies in a car crash, he is asked to be the godfather of his previous lover's son who is named after him.  In a comic episode reminiscent of Seinfeld, one character in this work demands that his lover choose between him and her cat Charlemagne.  That lover has a homosexual brother, Ed, who briefly has an affair with a character whose arrest inspires her to become a lawyer, Phil Weiss.  Near the beginning of this work, Janet Hayakawa convinces the protagonist to use a personals column to find love, resulting in his relationship with Liz Dorati.  Following John Brown and written in the same meter as Eugene Onegin, FTP, name this novel in verse set in San Francisco written by Vikram Seth.
After one character's lover in this work dies in a car crash, he is asked to be the godfather of his previous lover's son who is named after him.  
The Golden Gate