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- Authors: [Ben Lerner](https://www.bookquiver.com/ben-lerner)
- Publisher: granta
- ISBN: 978-18-0351-389-8
- Published: 2026-03-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.