Description
A novel of ideas and intimacy, this work follows a narrator moving through the friction between lived experience and the stories we tell to make sense of it. As public language, private memory, and the mechanics of recording and revision collide, the book explores how meaning is produced—then undone—by transcription, translation, and performance. With Ben Lerner’s signature blend of lyrical intelligence and self-aware form, it turns questions of authorship, attention, and authenticity into a suspenseful emotional inquiry. Ultimately, it asks what we owe to the past we document and the selves we edit, and what remains when the record can no longer hold still.
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paperback
Random House
Published Apr 7, 2026
145 pages
ISBN: 9780771039065
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First Published
2026
Language
eng
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