Failed academic Joshua Schulman is in a bad way.
Grieving his mother's death and the end of his marriage, he turns his avocation of retro video game collecting into a full-blown addiction.
When a prep school in Eastern Iowa recruits him for a teaching job on the strength of a long-ago published online article from his grad school days, Joshua claims to still be chasing his PhD and gets hired.
Moving from Brooklyn to Roll, Iowa (population 1,412), he finds that his troubles are just beginning.
The eggplant curse and the warp zone, paperback/shawn rubenfeld
