A damaged phone complicates an interview and raises questions about truth, memory and the version that will eventually be written down.
Ben Lerner makes a technical failure into a literary problem: a conversation and its record are never quite the same thing. The appeal is the attention to mediation and self-presentation. Choose this for readers who enjoy fiction that examines how its own materials become a story.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For readers drawn to character, language and the tensions within ordinary lives.
