by Adam Johnson
First published 2015
A programmer seeks solace in a digital presidential simulacrum. A young man searches for his son's mother in a hurricane-ravaged Louisiana. A former Stasi warden confronts his past. In these six masterful stories, Pulitzer Prize-winner Adam Johnson plumbs the depths of love, loss, and the profound impact of technology and politics on the personal. Subtly surreal yet grounded in the real, Johnson's stories offer a darkly comic, often heartbreaking portrait of the modern human condition.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, 21st-century
Vibes: dark, emotional, thought-provoking
Tropes: grounded-in-reality, surreal
Setting: Louisiana
Period: Modern
304 pages · Hardcover · Random House