Life Redesigned: Reinventing the Self in Absurdist Fiction

Comas, sushi restaurants, and hot air balloons. Join authors Jinwoo Chong and Marcy Dermansky in conversation about redefining identity and desire in their comedic and absurdist novels. In I Leave It Up to You, Chong questions the plausibility of second chances through a protagonist who wakes from a two-year coma, reunites with his family and starts running their restaurant while relearning how to live. In Hot Air, Dermansky takes readers on a chaotic journey of money and marriage, centered on the tangled web of a woman, her first date post-divorce, her former-crush-turned-billionaire, and his wife.