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About
Peter Ferry, our protagonist, teaches high-school English in the wealthy suburb of Lake Forest outside of Chicago and moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home after work one evening, he witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an accident? Could Pete have prevented it?
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Reviews
"Ferry's undeniably clever debut novel, full of metafictional razzle-dazzle…Listeners with a taste for fiction about fiction will find ample rewards…If you buy strictly on merit, though, go for it."
Library Journal
"A winning first novel…Ferry's prose is so entrancing, his mild-mannered yet covertly audacious hero is so compelling, there is nothing intrusive or pretentious about this metafiction setup…A mordently funny and diabolically smart novel of happenstance and responsibility."
Booklist
"Imagination and literal truth collide intriguingly in this Chinese-box puzzle…This is a witty novel about its own provenance, an exploration of the ambiguous ways in which the writer's imagination works…Novel or not-novel, it's one hell of a fictional debut."
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)