Departure(s) "--The Minnesota Star Tribune

"--The Minnesota Star Tribune

Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico's history

What does joy sound like

video game-like dungeon filled with traps

Departure(s) "--The Minnesota Star TribuneOn the occasion of his eightieth birthday, one of our great novelists delivers a playful and profound work about memory, love, and the writer's endgame. Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he interrupts himself with a bulletin to the reader: "There will be a story or a story within the story but not just yet." Of course, whether Departure(s) is mostly fiction or