City of Orange
by David Yoon

  He used to live in a place called California. How did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pills in his pocket?
    He navigates his surroundings, one rough shape at a time. Here lies a pipe, there a reed that could be carved into a weapon, beyond a city he once lived in.
   He could swear his daughter’s name began with a J, but what was it, exactly?
    Then he encounters an old man, a crow, and a boy—and realizes that nothing is what he thought it was, neither the present nor the past.
   He can’t even recall the features of his own face, and wonders: who am I?
    Harrowing and haunting but also humorous in the face of the unfathomable, David Yoon’s City of Orange is a novel about reassembling the things that make us who we are, and finding the way home again.