After a terrible construction site accident severs Edgar Freemantle’s right arm

only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka

and the variety of fields of study the subject requires

with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great grace and cunning

she’s offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure

The Emergency Format:Hardcover After a terrible construction siteGeorge Packers gripping fable of imperial collapse illuminates the crises of our times. George Packers bestselling nonfiction work exploring American life has won many prizes, including the National Book Award. With The Emergency, he turns to fiction, bringing us a visionary novel that goes to the nerve center of what it means to live in a time of fracture and upheaval. An empire has collapsed from boredom and loss of faith in itself. In the Emergency