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21 reviews
Josh Emmons

Scribner, 2008

An Astounding Work of Imagination and Insight
The Loss of Leon Meed reads like a cross between Jonathan Franzen and Philip K. Dick. It's the book Dick might have written if he hadn't been busy churning out ninety or so novels a year. A great read!

The Loss of Leon Meed: A Novel [Large Print]
Josh Emmons

Recorded Books, 2006

Ten men and women in the town of Eureka, California, are affected in surprising ways by their encounters with Leon Meed. Eve Sieber, an aspiring actress; Elaine Perry, a grade-school teacher facing divorce; and Shane Larson, a Mormon with violent tendencies, are just three whose lives intersect with this curious figure. Disappearing as miraculously as he appears--in the middle of oncoming traffic, clinging to the roof of a speeding truck--Leon's ...

Prescription for a Superior Existence: A Novel

2 reviews
Josh Emmons

Scribner, 2008

Amazing New Novel.
I loved Emmons' first book, "The Loss of Leon Meed," and was similarly blown away by "Prescription for a Superior Existence," which is about a man who taken under by the sometimes sound, sometimes strange, sometimes suicidal beliefs of an American cult. The thinking of this book is so rich and detailed that I found myself taken into philosophical musings about the nature of belief, love, and why ...