Audiobook The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem in the ListenBook app
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Book description
When civilization quietly implodes, what remains isn't always fire and chaos-it's sometimes just silence where your smartphone used to beep. Jonathan Lethem's The Arrest drops us into that unsettling hush, where the rules have changed but no one bothered to write a new handbook.
Sandy Duplessis, now calling himself Journeyman, has traded his Hollywood screenwriting career for a simpler life in rural Maine. He helps butcher livestock and delivers his sister Maddy's organic vegetables, a far cry from the days when his biggest worry was script notes. Their peaceful routine represents something precious: adaptation, resilience, community.
Then Peter Todbaum arrives.
Once Sandy's college friend and writing partner, Todbaum has become something else entirely-a man who's spent the years since "the Arrest" carving his own path through a fractured America. His mode of transport says everything: a nuclear-powered tunnel-digger that speaks to his megalomaniacal persistence. Lethem doesn't waste time explaining what collapsed or how-it's enough that Todbaum survived, thrived, and now stands once again in the siblings' lives like a returning storm.
What unfolds isn't quite post-apocalyptic fiction as we know it. There are no marauding bands or wasteland prophecies here. Instead, Lethem crafts something stranger: a tale about the stories we tell ourselves when the old ones stop working. Todbaum still carries the stink of Hollywood entitlement, but now he's mythic, dangerous, possibly mad. Journeyman must decide whether to confront this relic of a vanished world or simply watch him pass through.
Lethem reads his own audiobook with the kind of intimate familiarity that makes every strange detail feel deliberate. His voice carries both the wonder and weariness of someone who's seen what happens when society's machinery grinds to a halt. The prose is lean but rich with implication, finding humor and horror in equal measure.
This isn't a story about rebuilding civilization. It's about what happens to the people left standing after the music stops. And in Lethem's hands, that silence sings.
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