City of Glass

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Paul Auster

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Metafictional detective story where the case is basically: what is identity, anyway.

My take

Starts like a straight-up private eye gig and quietly melts the floor out from under you. Half the time you’re not sure if the mystery is in the city, the client, or the narrator’s own skull, but you keep turning pages because it feels like wandering lowe