Impossible Owls

Brian Phillips

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'Hilarious nimble and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead author of The Underground Railroad

'Recalls the work of John Jeremiah Sullivan and the late David Foster Wallace with a dash of Janet Malcolm' Vogue

From its opening journey into remote Alaska for the Iditarod Sled Dog Race IMPOSSIBLE OWLS leads us on a kaleidoscopic exploration of contemporary reality. Brian Phillips takes us to a sumo tournament in Japan the jungle in India the studio of a great Russian animator a royal tour of the Yukon Territory with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and into the weird heart of America. This exhilarating debut visits borders both real and imagined and asks what it means in our age to travel to the end of the map.

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