This includes California by Edan Lepucki, Chang - Rae Lee's
On Such a Full Sea, Monica Byrne's The Girl in the
Road, Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, Sandra Newman's The
Country of Ice Cream Star, Kenneth Calhoun's Black Moon, Laura
van den Berg's Find Me, Benjamin Percy's The Dead Lands, and Adam Sternbergh's Shovel Ready.
I was, at the time, in an Arizona restaurant, where I and a friend had stopped for lunch
on our cross
country road - trip to bring her the dog that she had adopted from me - «Q.») I think that the woman who called me thought I had a
van and went around picking up dogs that were no longer pleasing to their fickle companions and somewhere a huge warehouse in which to keep them while, with my other hours, I found them suitable homes.