Multiple Universes Fill The Pages Of 'The Lost Book Of Adana Moreau'
Michael Zapata's debut novel is a straightforward literary mystery on the surface — but his simple tale of a lost sci-fi manuscript goes deep on themes of family, displacement and mythology.
by Jason Heller
Feb 05, 2020
2 minutes
People could be other people, cities could be other cities, and worlds could be other worlds.
Adana Moreau — a young, orphaned, Dominican woman who emigrates to New Orleans in the 1910s — experiences this realization early in Michael Zapata's debut, . It's an epiphany that will echo throughout the novel in multiple dimensions. Smart and heart-piercing, is a story of displacement, erasure, identity, mythology, and the
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