The Tremor of Forgery

“I was so taken with Ben Lerner's new novel that I had to get on a three-way call with my sisters (also reading it) just to parse the ending. A mid-forties writer returns to Brown U for a final interview with his Werner Herzog-esque mentor, but breaks his phone and is unable to record the conversation. What follows is a sharp, searching novel about fatherhood, memory, technology, and disconnect. I cried twice.”

“This book was fast, I read it in 4 days. The structure of the book was really thoughtful. It is written in so many different ways, when he interviews his mentor, it becomes very surreal, in and out of memories and hard to decipher was is real and not. Which is kind of the book as a whole. There are so many layers, about memory, communication, and technology. Def a book club book. After I finished it, I immediately looked for people to talk to about it, its needs to be discussed and processed!”