A shredding facility employee encounters a mysterious film and becomes obsessed with finding its director. The History of America in My Lifetime is Brooks Sterritt's first novel. Read an excerpt or two, and order from the usual places.

“Brooks Sterritt writes like a demented John McPhee.”

—Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The House of Broken Angels

“If Nicholson Baker wrote The Crying of Lot 49 it might read something like The History of America in My Lifetime. Mind-bending, suspenseful, and extremely funny—I found this novel the perfect balance of intellectual challenge and pure pleasure.”

—Jac Jemc, author of False Bingo

“The History of America in My Lifetime slips into the neural network of your brain and declines extraction—an amazing and unforgettable novel.”

—Michael Kimball, author of Big Ray