Preston Bound

by Hernan Diaz

A transfer patient wakes up in hospital but has no idea why. The man has misplaced his identity and in the process, forgotten that he is mad. The man mistakes his transfer destination on his wristband for his name. And in the belief he is about to undergo dangerous brain surgery, he flees the hospital embarking on a quest to rekindle with his past and true purpose in life. He must deal with his madness, the authorities and an indifferent world. But along the way he finds help from unlikely sources such as the music he loves, an eminent dead psychologist and a gang of homeless youths.

452 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 16, 2018

About the author

Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of Trust. His first novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, was translated into more than twenty languages, and was one of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 books of the year and Literary Hub’s twenty best novels of the decade. Trust, one of The New York Times’s 100 best Books of the Century, was translated into more than thirty languages, received the Kirkus Prize, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Time magazine, and it was one of The New Yorker’s 12 Essential Reads of the Year and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year. Diaz’s work has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. He has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

Reviews

[Joan Wechsler]

This Hernan Diaz is not the Hernan Diaz of "In The Distance" and "Trust". This author has a daughter named Amara and the "real" Hernan Diaz has a daughter named Elsa. This guy is a sales manager somewhere while the other Hernan Diaz is an academician.

[Michael Riess · Rating 1 out of 5]

Gave up 20% in.
Amazing writer, just finished: ‘Trust’ which was brilliant, prior to starting ‘Preston Bound’ which in my opinion, is a confusing ‘mess’ of a book.