In Limbo

<p><span style=color: rgba(53 53 53 1)>There's something in the air but it isn't love.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(53 53 53 1)>Apocalyptic forces both real and imaginary loom large in this sprawling novel set in 2012 New York City. Ray an Ivy League grad and struggling fledgling journalist is a few weeks into trying to make ends meet as a bicycle courier when he mounts an investigation to solve the mystery of his own death. Along the way he strikes up a strange romance with Haruka-a young woman seeking self-empowerment through a malevolent form of online dating-and finds himself taken under the wing of an exalted aging academic Emerson whose Virgil-like guidance might not be all that it seems.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(53 53 53 1)>Equal parts zany existential detective story scathing Web 2.0 sendup and poignant elegy for what was lost in the smartphone revolution </span><em style=color: rgba(53 53 53 1)>In Limbo</em><span style=color: rgba(53 53 53 1)> asks critical psychological and spiritual questions about what it means to be alive-and human-in the 21st century.</span></p>