Between memory and the future, love and loss, a young man searches for meaning in a world on the brink. Peter Fischer, a twenty-something from the Skylands of New Jersey, navigates the turbulent months between Occupy Wall Street and Hurricane Sandy. On his first assignment as a health-care attendant in Manhattan, he cares for Benjamin X, a man whose memory falters after an " accident" yet whose vision of the future is startlingly clear. Peter also meets Mamiko, Benjamin's adopted daughter, and is swept into a romance that is as unexpected as it is transformative. But as his professional and personal lives collide, Peter must confront the lingering shadow of his father's death-- a man whose career at a government weapons-testing facility left behind questions, regrets, and unresolved grief. In the Riddle Sea is a sharp, evocative exploration of love, memory, and the fragile human connections we cling to amid societal and environmental upheaval.
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