10/04

In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart c ondition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child, despite his dating a rising star in the visual arts. I n a New York of increasingly frequent super storms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibili ty of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water. In prose t hat Jona...[Read more]