Short stories by Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College. He is the author of seven novels including Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which was named Novel of the Year by Esquire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger. He has also written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, edited The Vintage Book of Amnesia, guest-edited The Year's Best Music Writing 2002, and was the founding fiction editor of Fence magazine. His writings have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, McSweeney's and many other periodicals. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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In a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, an environmental analyst moves into an enigmatic shelter for the unhoused to search for his former student’s mother. But after meeting a man who claims to have exited the house through a special window, the analyst finds himself on a quest to learn more about the shelter and its creation before the authorities catch up to him.
A young couple obsessed with syntax sets off to meet their favorite author.