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By: Ben Lerner
Narrated by: Seth Numrich
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A writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor. But after he drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomas's house with no recording device - a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess. What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich and impoverish our connections to each other, that store and obliterate our memories, and a moving exploration of the relationships that make us who we are.

©2026 Ben Lerner (P)2026 Ben Lerner Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature Technology
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This book explores challenges in how we communicate with otbers.How what we perceive is nuanced and the right of everyone to communicate in tbeir own way.

How technology can enhance and thwart our experiences

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this is the second american novel that came highly recommended but which I disliked so much I could not finish it - the 1st was E Strout's The things we never say. Two credits wasted.

yet another unreadable novel

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