Finn is in the grip of middle-age and on an enforced break from work: it might be that he's too emotional to teach history now. He is living in an America hurtling headlong into hysteria, after all.

'America's first lady of darkness and mirth' Guardian

'How lucky we are that we have Lorrie Moore's voice to reflect this lunatic world back to us and show us how to see it in all its devastating hilarity.' Lauren Groff

From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Mo...

A teacher visiting his dying brother in the Bronx. A mysterious journal from the nineteenth century stolen from a boarding house. A therapy clown and an assassin, both presumed dead, but perhaps not dead at all . . . A daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past.