An Esquire "Best Book of Spring 2022" selection
A Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2022" selection
A San Francisco Chronicle "Most Anticipated Novel of 2022" selection
From "an important writer in every sense" (David Foster Wallace), a novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, into an unwelcoming world.
One such American is Ron Patterson, who finds himself on distant shores, working as a repairman and sharing a room with other refugees. In an unnamed city wedged between ocean and lush mountainous forest, Ron can almost imagine a stable life for himself. Especially when he makes the first friend he has had in years-a mysterious migrant named Marlise, who bears a striking resemblance to a onetime classmate.
Nearly a decade later-after anti-migrant sentiment has put their whirlwind intimacy and...
