Loss of Leon Meed
By (author): Josh Emmons
Josh Emmons is the real deal: a major league prose writer who has fun in every sentence; you want to keep reading him for the pure pleasure of his company Jonathan Franzen
Over the course of one December, ten residents of Eureka, California, are brought together by a mysterious man, Leon Meed, who repeatedly and inexplicably appears in the ocean, at a local music club, clinging to the roof of a barrelling truck, standing in the middle of Main Streets oncoming traffic and then, as if by magic, disappears.
Each witness to these bewildering events young and old, married and single, punk and evangelical, black, white and Korean interprets them differently, yet all of their lives are irrevocably changed. Over time, these ten characters, previously only tenuously connected, form a strange community of shared experience.
Highly original and brilliantly written, Josh Emmonss award-winning debut is a mystery, a love story and something else entirely.
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