The Visitors Peter Cole

The Visitors Peter ColeOn the eve of Occupy Wall Street, C is broke. Once a renowned artist, shes now divorced, alone, stuck with a stack of bills, a new erotic interest in her oldest girlfriend, and a persistent hallucination in the form of a gnome. Darkly funny and uncannily percipient, The Visitors counts down the last days of our digital age toward a strange climax. Its as if The Big Short were set in the dreamworld of Rachel Ingalls's Mrs. Caliban . . . Audrey Wollen,

a New York-based poet and little-magazine editor

first published in the LEF journal (Left Front of the Arts) in 1923

(wouldn't they say

He has lived nearly half his life outside Iraq

The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction

and an excerpt from his new novel in English translation

• Pedro Serrano

unrequited attachment

an illegal immigrant

often brutal

a magnetic intersection between cultures and histories

as a participant at finance meetings