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By: Andrew Durbin Debut novel that navigates disaster, belonging, pre-apocalypse, the cultural public & psychic devastation.After Hurricane Sandy, Nick Fowler, a writer, stranded a lone in a Manhattan apartment without power, begins to contemplate disaster. Months later, at an artist residency in upstate New York, Nick finds his subject in disaster itself and the communities shaped by it, where crisis animates both hope and denial, unacknowledged pasts and potential futures. As he travels to Los Angeles and London on assignment, Nick discovers that outsiders—their lives and histories disturbed by sex, loss, and bad weather—are often better understood by what they have hidden from the world than what they have revealed. Show more