About this ebook
Mark starts out in suburban New Jersey, where housing developments and shopping malls provide cover for medical scams, divorces and abortions. He moves on to film-biz-saturated Los Angeles, harboring Afghan freedom fighters and damaged survivors of Hollywood’s entertainment-making machine. Back east in rapidly gentrifying New York City, he falls in with art snobs, literary luminaries and real estate operators, all making the most
of trickle-down economics.
Law school and extreme anxiety are on the horizon, followed by a foray into France and encounters with Eastern religion, an early wave of terrorism and the burgeoning right wing movement
that is its corollary.
Everyone is looking for anything but what they already have. Mark is no exception.
About the author
Mark Kamine has written for the Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, The Believer and The New York Times Book Review. The River in the Living Room, a chapbook of his stories illustrated by James Pyman, was published in 2008. He works in the film business, where he has been an executive or co-producer on 21 Bridges, Brad’s Status, American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook and other movies.
