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A man can’t sleep. When he finally does fall asleep, he wakes up in a panic in the driver’s seat of a moving car, on a foggy road, and drives and drives for hours, until he falls asleep at the wheel, and wakes up in his bed, depleted and exhausted. The same thing happens night after night. Is it a medical issue? A psychological one? A reaction to an unintentional ingestion of psychedelic drugs? A belated response to childhood trauma? The man looks to his mother, his sister, and his girlfriend for answers, but gets only questions in return. Wang’s funny, poignant story takes us all on a road trip with some unexpected detours, to the past and to what America and the American Dream can mean to an immigrant family.
—Deborah Treisman, fiction editor
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