The Loss of Leon Meed (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743267199)

In Josh Emmons's inventive and utterly engaging debut, ten residents of Eureka, California, are brought together by a mysterious man, Leon Meed, who repeatedly and inexplicably appears -- in the ocean, at a local rock music club, clinging to the roof of a barreling truck, standing in the middle of Main Street's oncoming traffic -- and then, as if by magic, disappears. Young and old, married and single, punk and evangelical, black, white, and Korean, each witness to these bewildering events interprets them differently, yet all of their lives are changed -- by the phenomenon itself, and by what it provokes in them. And whether they in turn stagger toward love, or heartbreakingly dissolve it, Emmons's portrayal of their stories is strikingly real and emotionally affecting.

Author: Josh Emmons
ISBN-10: 0743267192
ISBN-13: 9780743267199
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2008
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/10/2008 pg. 24