A Brooklyn writer with a book deal navigates impending fatherhood, a superstorm, and the slippery boundary between fiction and reality. Lerner's second novel is one of those rare books that makes you see your own life differently while you're reading it. He writes about late capitalism, art, and everyday fraudulence with such intelligence that the novel becomes the critique it describes.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.