From the author of the acclaimed debut Leaving the Atocha Station, here is a dazzling new novel of contemporary New York that will draw you into its tentacle-like embrace and make you laugh, think and marvel

Granta's lead fiction title for the season. In a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and political unrest, the novel's narrator must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife and the prospect of unconventional fatherhood in a city that might soon be underwater. From the acclaimed author of }Leaving The Atocha Station