In the Riddle Sea

Between memory and the future, love and loss, a young man searches for meaning in a world on the brink. Peter Fischer, a twenty-something from the Skylands of New Jersey, navigates the turbulent months between Occupy Wall Street and Hurricane Sandy. On his first assignment as a health-care attendant in Manhattan, he cares for Benjamin X, a man whose memory falters after an " accident" yet whose vision of the future is startlingly clear. Peter also meets Mamiko, Benjamin' s adopted daughter,...