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Amnesia Moon

by Jonathan Lethem · 1995

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In Jonathan Lethem's wryly funny novel, we meet a young man named Chaos, who's living in a movie theater in post-apocalyptic Wyoming, drinking alcohol, and eating food out of cans.

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It's an unusual and at times unbearable existence, but Chaos soon discovers that his post-nuclear reality may have no connection to the truth. So he takes to the road with a girl named Melinda in order to find answers. As the pair travels through the United States they find that, while each town has been affected differently by the mysterious source of the apocalypse, none of the people they meet can fill in their incomplete memories or answer their questions. Gradually, figures from Chaos's past, including some who appear only under the influence of intravenously administered drugs, make Chaos remember some of his forgotten life as a man named Moon.

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science fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thispost-apocalypticpost-apocalypticMore like thisLess of thisdystopiadystopiaMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thishumorhumorMore like thisLess of this
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1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisWyomingWyomingMore like thisLess of this
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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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