Tom Lutz is the award-winning author of Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums and over a dozen other books, including fiction, travel narrative, and cultural history. His work has been translated into 12 languages and featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The New Republic, and many more. Lutz is the founding editor of The Los Angeles Review of Books, producing numerous literary pieces, books, films, and podcasts. A former Distinguished Professor and Chair of Creative Writing at UC Riverside, he splits his time between Los Angeles and southern France.
""Troubled lives intersect in the Indian Ocean with explosive results in Lutz’s tantalizing follow-up to Born Slippy... Lutz keeps the plot moving at a steady clip while delving deep into his characters’ psyches, setting the stage for a shocking climax that lands with devastating emotional force. Neo-noir fans will eat this up.""—Publishers Weekly