A haunting new novel by the author of Vengeance in which a chance encounter between a blocked painter and a journalist leads to a complicated romance that reveals their buried histories and vulnerabilities against the backdrops of an America in chaos and Mexico. Beginning in the first summer of the post-Obama world, Zachary Lazars bewitching and masterful new novel tells the story of Christopher Bell, a blocked painter on the East End of Long Island, and Ana Ramirez, a journalist who fled the crisis in Venezuela and is looking for work in New York. Bell has always felt marked by his foreignness, having emigrated to the U.S. as a child, and has come to believe that words like identity and American are somehow very meaningful and very meaningless at the same time. He has retreated to a modest house near a patch of woods, a rural nowhere...that sometimes held more meaning for me in its silence than human language. In the woods, he encounters Ana, who is trying to reinvent herself as the kind of person shed been before the world she knew disappeared. A complicated romance develops that gradually reveals their buried histories--from the death of Bells former partner, Malika Jordan, a fellow artist, to the prison farm where he visits Malikas incarcerated brother Jesse, to Mexico City, where Anas exiled family now lives. All of them have faced the same problem: how to build a new life once the idea youve had of home vanishes or becomes unrecognizable. The Apartment on Calle Uruguay is a haunting exploration of love, art, and the cost of transformation. It lays out a fiercely intentional and introspective way of living in an unjust world.Zachary Lazar is the author of five previous books, including the novel Sway, the memoir Evenings Empire: The Story of My Fathers Murder, and the novel I Pity the Poor Immigrant, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2014. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the 2015 John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for a writer in mid-career whose work has demonstrated consistent excellence. Lazar lives in New Orleans, where he is on the creative writing faculty at Tulane University.Book specifications:Dimensions: 217 x 149Author: Zachary LazarCover type: HardcoverPublishing Year: 2022Publishing Month: 4Pages: 256Language: EnglishPublisher: CatapultWeight: 408 g