I should probably be embarrassed to admit this, since the book is so short, but I‘ve been working on the story in one form or another for a very long, starting in undergraduate courses at Stanford, during my MFA at UC Irvine, and nights and weekends throughout my 25-year career in digital and educational publishing in New York and Philadelphia. I’ve brought drafts to many writing workshops and conferences over the years, including Sirenland, One Story, Tin House, and Boston’s GrubStreet.

Though the story is fiction, I grew up in the LA of the novella, in a youth culture saturated with apocalypticism at the end of the Vietnam War. I currently live in Boston, which is like another planet.

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