Loss of Leon Meed

In Josh Emmons''s inventive and utterly engaging debut, ten residents of Eureka, California, are brought together by a mysterious man, Leon Meed, who repeatedly and inexplicably appears -- in the ocean, at a local rock music club, clinging to the roof of a barreling truck, standing in the middle of Main Street''s oncoming traffic -- and then, as if by magic, disappears.
Young and old, married and...