Leave Society

Description: From the acclaimed author of Taipei a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives artist son loner as he spins the ordinary into something monumental. An engrossing hopeful novel about life fiction and where the two blur together. In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn't know it yet but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between these two worlds - - year by year over four years - - he will flit in and out of optimism despair loneliness sanity bouts of chronic pain and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments uncover secrets about nature and history and try to understand how to live a meaningful life as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together? Where to begin? Or should he leave society altogether? Exploring everyday events and scenes - - waiting rooms dog walks family meals - - while investigatively venturing to the edges of society where culture dissolves into mystery Lin shows what it is to write a novel in real time. Illuminating and deeply felt as it builds toward a stunning if unexpected romance Leave Society is a masterly story about life and art at the end of history. A Vintage Original
Title: Leave Society
Barcode: 9781101974476
Publication Date: 8/3/2021
Series: Vintage Contemporaries