Shadowbahn

When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the Badlands of South Dakota twenty years after their fall, nobody can explain their return. To the hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands drawn to the American Stonehenge including Parker and Zema, siblings driving cross country with only their father's playlist to guide them the Towers seem to sing, even as everybody hears a different song. And on the ninety-third floor of the South Tower, Jesse Presley the stillborn twin of the most famous singer who ever lived suddenly awakes, driven mad over the hours and days to come by a voice in his head that sounds like his but isn't, and by the memory of a country where he survived in his brother's place.

So begins Shadowbahn, a kaleidoscopic, musical meditation on America's history and its destiny. Bold, provocative, and fantastically daring in both form and substance, Steve Erickson's novel speaks directly to our current times and asks, What happens when the ideas that define America threaten to destroy it?