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A man who can not remember his own name wakes up in an apocalyptic landscape, injured and alone. He has vague memories of life before, but he can't see it clearly and can't grasp how his current situation came to be. He must learn to survive by finding sources of water and foraging for food. Then he encounters a boy--and he realizes nothing is what he thought it was, neither the past nor the present.
City of Orange is a novel that is both harrowing and heartfelt, charged with a speculative energy but grounded in intimate character study. It is a novel about coming to grips with the worst that has befallen us and finding our way home again.
This imaginative and affecting new novel is beloved, bestselling, and award-winning author David Yoon at his finest: thought-provoking and heart-piercing, by turns funny and challenging, and at all times deeply human.
Jorge Jacobson @logan99_763
July 29, 2022
4
After a few pages the seasoned reader will start to suspect where this book is headed, but there's nothing wrong with that. The prose is spare and sharp edged, and often the spaces between the sentences and paragraphs are more telling than is the narrative itself. If you want the equivalent of a character driven mood piece set in a brightly overlit unfurnished white room, with a vaguely Twilight Zone-ish hint of dislocation -- this is the book for you. I skimmed a bit here and there, but this was an entertaining and often admirable read.