Pavel Lembersky was born in Odesa, Ukraine, and emigrated to the United States in 1977. After receiving his BA in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley, Pavel did graduate work in film at San Francisco State University. He worked in New York City on film projects of Jonathan Demme and Spalding Gray and the Oscar-winning The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, among others. Pavel authored seven collections of short fiction and three novels. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

• Prologue: The Boca Raton Recluse Part One: Retributive Justice Moscow-Style Part Two: The Boca Raton Recluse Talks Part Three: The Rollback Procedure Epilogue: A Luna Park in the Sun Acknowledgements

"Ah yes, the great Russian realist tradition of Tolstoy and Chekhov sped right up to the present moment . . . Ooops! Wrong doorway. Pavel Lembersky has swept all the cards together and reshuffled the deck for us. Whether it’s twelve chairs or two hundred Cadillacs, the ride has begun. Gogol opened the stable door, Bulgakov changed the horses to wildcats, and now it’s time for further antics on the living page. Let excess and exuberance reign. Whether the scenery’s from Moscow or Boca Raton, the real and irreal will swap their masks at whatever pace they please. All these irregularities of expectation come from close to the bone when the writer’s raised up from late-Soviet Russia into another world and has seen the kingdoms fall. This is not some ingenious offhand po-mo jape from the land of the lucky. Its multiplex cargo comes straight from a true joker’s heart to you. I wish this book the happiest of landings." — Rafi Zabor, author of The Bear Comes Home (winner of PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction)

Pavel Lembersky was born in Odesa, Ukraine, and emigrated to the United States in 1977. After receiving his BA in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley, Pavel did graduate work in film at San Francisco State University. He worked in New York City on film projects of Jonathan Demme and Spalding Gray and the Oscar-winning The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, among others. Pavel authored seven collections of short fiction and three novels. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

• Prologue: The Boca Raton Recluse Part One: Retributive Justice Moscow-Style Part Two: The Boca Raton Recluse Talks Part Three: The Rollback Procedure Epilogue: A Luna Park in the Sun Acknowledgements

"Ah yes, the great Russian realist tradition of Tolstoy and Chekhov sped right up to the present moment . . . Ooops! Wrong doorway. Pavel Lembersky has swept all the cards together and reshuffled the deck for us. Whether it’s twelve chairs or two hundred Cadillacs, the ride has begun. Gogol opened the stable door, Bulgakov changed the horses to wildcats, and now it’s time for further antics on the living page. Let excess and exuberance reign. Whether the scenery’s from Moscow or Boca Raton, the real and irreal will swap their masks at whatever pace they please. All these irregularities of expectation come from close to the bone when the writer’s raised up from late-Soviet Russia into another world and has seen the kingdoms fall. This is not some ingenious offhand po-mo jape from the land of the lucky. Its multiplex cargo comes straight from a true joker’s heart to you. I wish this book the happiest of landings." — Rafi Zabor, author of The Bear Comes Home (winner of PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction)

Pavel Lembersky was born in Odesa, Ukraine, and emigrated to the United States in 1977. After receiving his BA in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley, Pavel did graduate work in film at San Francisco State University. He worked in New York City on film projects of Jonathan Demme and Spalding Gray and the Oscar-winning The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, among others. Pavel authored seven collections of short fiction and three novels. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

• Prologue: The Boca Raton Recluse Part One: Retributive Justice Moscow-Style Part Two: The Boca Raton Recluse Talks Part Three: The Rollback Procedure Epilogue: A Luna Park in the Sun Acknowledgements

"Ah yes, the great Russian realist tradition of Tolstoy and Chekhov sped right up to the present moment . . . Ooops! Wrong doorway. Pavel Lembersky has swept all the cards together and reshuffled the deck for us. Whether it’s twelve chairs or two hundred Cadillacs, the ride has begun. Gogol opened the stable door, Bulgakov changed the horses to wildcats, and now it’s time for further antics on the living page. Let excess and exuberance reign. Whether the scenery’s from Moscow or Boca Raton, the real and irreal will swap their masks at whatever pace they please. All these irregularities of expectation come from close to the bone when the writer’s raised up from late-Soviet Russia into another world and has seen the kingdoms fall. This is not some ingenious offhand po-mo jape from the land of the lucky. Its multiplex cargo comes straight from a true joker’s heart to you. I wish this book the happiest of landings." — Rafi Zabor, author of The Bear Comes Home (winner of PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction)