Margaret's life is in order. She is capable, disciplined, and successful. Everything is under control. That is, until David returns, carrying with him the horrors of Margaret's past.
Albert Matson is a high school senior and aspiring actor. He is about to experience love, loss and power lunch as he prepares either for a career in New York City or Oberlin College in the far-off, possibly mythical State of Ohio.
Realism and fantasy collide in Jonathan Lethem's genre-bending coming-of-age story, which follows two estranged brothers as they try to leave New York City for a new life in California only...