A Fool's Life
Fifty-one numbered fragments, some of them a single paragraph, open with a young man halfway up a ladder in the mezzanine of the Maruzen bookshop, looking down on the clerks below and deciding that life is not worth one line of Baudelaire. What follows takes in a mother confined to an asylum, an arranged marriage, a teaching post, sparks thrown off a tram wire, and a hardening conviction that her illness is coming for him. Handed to a friend with instructions about when it might be printed.
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