Author: Ben Lerner
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 9 April 2026 by Granta Books in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 144 pages
223 x 144 x 18 | 258g
A writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor. But after he drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomas's house with no recording device - a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess.
What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich and impoverish our connections to each other, that store and obliterate our memories, and a moving exploration of the relationships that make us who we are.