The Limbo Zone

The Limbo Zone is not a novel in the conventional sense, nor is it merely a collection of short stories. It is a complex, polyphonic statement: a novella in fifteen parts, orbited by eight companion stories, and concluded by a Song with a brief postscript. Together, they form a structure resembling a wheel with spokes — or, to use the text’s own metaphor, a seam, that very seam by which, in the words of the tailor Noah Goldstein, the past is sewn to the present, life to death, a name to a body.