Departure(s): A Novel Children's Journal Writing In a desperate bid

In a desperate bid

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Director of the Iranian Studies program at Stanford University

Departure(s): A Novel Children's Journal Writing In a desperate bidOn the occasion of his eightieth birthday, one of our great novelists delivers a playful and profound work about memory, love, and the writer's endgame. Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he interrupts himself with a bulletin to the reader: "There will be a storyor a story within the storybut not just yet. Of course, whether Departure(s) is mostly fiction or