Manhattan Loverboy

*Overly suspicious second novel from Arthur Nersesian, author of *The Fuck-Up.

Nersesian's brilliant follow-up to his underground classic, *The Fuck-Up*, *Manhattan Loverboy*is paranoid delusion and fantastic comedy in the service of social realism. Updating the picaresque chronicles in L. Frank Baum's *Wizard of Oz* and Kafka's *The Trial*, *MLB* is the tale of an orphan whose only known background is that of the city itself, a scaffold-covered grid sewn together with "Do Not Cross" tape. In this overly suspicious masterpiece, love is expressed through corrective surgery, and families meet across boardroom tables.

**Arthur Nersesian** was managing editor of the literary magazine, the *Portable Lower East Side*. He was born and raised in New York City.