For every time I started to think this book was just lightly entertaining there would come a scene so real and brutal it would hurt a bit. Broken child-parent relationships. Exes whose scent still lingers. Women sobbing in the produce section of a supermarket.

In the title story, a Holocaust survivor taps into a theme of the collection when he describes the way people hold the history of previous generations inside them. ‘We carry it with us, not just in our grandmother’s silver,’ he says, ‘but in our bodies, the cells of our hearts.’” — Wall Street Journal I started reading A.M. Homes twenty years ago. Wild and funny, questioning and true, she is a writer to go travelling with on the journey called life.”—Jeanette Winterson, New York Times bestselling author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?DAYS OF AWE I was thinking of good citizenship. I always used to win that one. By the way, I didn't get your name."But wave goodbye as he disappears, perhaps, over the horizon in the ocean, washed there by an earthquake that vomits a sea of sewage and detritus leaving him marooned gaily on a floating table with dog and cell phone. A metaphor for his once-charmed life in Los Angeles. neyse sonuçta kahramanın sonsuz yolculuğu misali richard’la oğlu ben’in yolculuklarına, kavgalarına, yüzleşmelerine şahit oluyoruz. baştaki saçmalıklar devam ediyor ve bu kez de yangınla final yapıyoruz.

Since her debut in 1989, A.M. Homes has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her keen ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching and funny new novel, her first in six years. I think this brave story of a lost man’s reconnection with the world could become a generational touchstone, like Catch-22, The Monkey Wrench Gang, or The Catcher in the Rye. . . . And hey, maybe it will save somebody’s life.”–Stephen King I started this book in the A.M., finished in the P.M., and couldn’t sleep all night. Ms. Homes just gets better and better.”—Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Our Country Friends Berton, Justin (March 15, 2009). " 'Emergency,' by Neil Strauss". Sfgate.com . Retrieved March 26, 2009.You are a writer living in New York. What is it about Los Angeles that attracts you to it as a setting for fiction?