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10:04


A Literary Fiction Novel

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A stunning, urgent, and original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire.

In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child.

In a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and social unrest, he must reckon with his own mortality and the prospect of fatherhood in a city that might soon be underwater.

A writer whose work captures what it's like to be alive now when the difficulty of imagining a future is changing our relationship to both the present and the past.

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