Woke Up Lonely: A Novel
Woke Up Lonelyis vortical, fitful, and occasionally frustrating, but it is also deeply felt, meticulously constructed, and wildly original: a true and uncompromising account of living in a centerless age, all of us whirling around the empty spot where the sure, solid thing ought to be, might have been once, maybe will be again someday. Everyone in the whole sprawling cast is engaged in some form of longing, missing, yearning, lamenting, regretting, scheming to recover what they've given up or lost, and the novel is a matrix of their overlapping, broken, or missed connections. —Justin Taylor