So, today’s news that Foer’s next novel, Escape from Children’s Hospital, will come out in 2014. Not soon enough for fans, but any news here is good news. Here’s the publisher’s description: A fictionalised account of a life-changing event that happened to the author as a nine-year-old – an explosion in a summer camp science class, which left his best friend without skin on his face or hands, and whose brunt the author avoided by inches and for no good reason – this is a story about the shared trauma of childhood, the potential destructiveness of storytelling, and the redemptive power of friendship. Weaving precariously between non-fiction and fiction, and existing at the intersection of different styles (suspense, memoir, imaginative storytelling), the book moves out from that moment in 1985 to the repercussions on the ever-expanding circle of those affected by it. Sounds Foer-like, no? More details, including a quote from Foer about the book, can be found here.
