But then, the whole point of being in this City, it turned out, was staying nimble enough to take advantage of whatever strange things the City might choose to offer to you.

Very Recent History wasn’t at all what I thought it was when I picked it up: at first, that irked me, but once I shed my expectation of Derrida’s New York: The Novel and let this book take me where it wanted to go, it was worth the journey. The point of reading fiction, as with life (within the City or away from it), is to stay nimble enough to take advantage of whatever strange things a novel might choose to offer you.

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