Philip Brunst
FICTION
Fall Into the Future
By Philip Brunst
Leigh Stein’s debut novel The Fallback Plan plumbs the Weltschmerz of lost innocence with a splendid mix of seriousness, imagination, and deadpan humor. In the present-day world of quick answers—“What will your life be like in 20 years? Click here to take the quiz and find out!” as one of the chapter titles reads—Stein’s narrator reckons with her irreclaimable childhood.
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