Lost In Summerland by Peter Swanson

Essays

A collection of essays that blends memoir and reportage to examine the anxious hopes and disillusionments of contemporary America. Sparked by a family crisis involving a brother’s traumatic brain injury and uncanny visions, the narrator travels through spiritualist communities, self-help seminars, reality TV sets, and political gatherings, probing masculinity, belonging, and the psychic costs of late capitalism. The result is a searching portrait of a generation’s quest for meaning amid instability and cultural fracture.