“Steve Erickson’s novel is: compassionate, weird, unpredictable, jaunty. “A beautiful, moving, strange examination of apocalypse and rebirth.” Original and fearless in vision and form, Steve Erickson’s novel speaks to our current times, and to a nation “defiling its own great idea. So begins Shadowbahn, a kaleidoscopic, musical road-trip across the dreamscape of American destiny. Over the days and months and years to come, he’s driven mad by a voice in his head that sounds like his but isn’t, and by the memory of a country where he survived in his brother’s place. And on the ninety-third floor of the South Tower, Jesse Presley, the stillborn twin of the most famous singer who ever lived, suddenly awakes. to Michigan - the Towers seem to sing, even as everybody hears a different song. To the tens of thousands drawn to the “American Stonehenge” - including Parker and Zema, siblings driving from L.A. When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the Badlands of South Dakota two decades after their fall, nobody can explain their return. Fiona Maazel, New York Times Book Review an answer to and sanctuary from the American Century to come." “Gorgeous, compassionate, weird, unpredictable, alarmingly prescient.
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