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This book explores how contemporary American novelists express the malaise and sense of
contingency felt in the crisis-ridden historical present through two distinct tropes in their
storytelling: home and mobility. As the American nation has been confronted with an
unprecedented accumulation of crises in the years since 9 11  the interrelated concepts of home
and mobility have entered plots in imaginative and unique ways. This study focuses on recent
novels by Paul Auster (Sunset Park)  Cormac McCarthy (The Road)  Dave Eggers (A Hologram for
the King)  Richard Ford (The Lay of the Land and Let Me Be Frank with You) and Emily St. John
Mandel (Station Eleven). Crises can happen at any moment  without much warning- as the recent
shock of the pandemic has made all too clear-and the works of fiction by these five authors all
explore this underlying sense of threat and uncertainty through the double prism of home and
mobility. The book includes excerpts from exclusive interviews with four of these authors

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