A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone.
He used to live in a place called California, but 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.