Leaving the Atocha Station
by Ben Lerner · 2011
Literary Fiction · ranked #146 in category
Adam Gordon, an American poet on a fellowship in Madrid, navigates the cultural fallout from the 2004 train bombings while maintaining an elaborate performance of emotional depth he is not sure he possesses. Lerner's debut is one of the most precise accounts of artistic imposter syndrome and the specifically contemporary problem of being unsure whether your inner life is real.
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