Hello and welcome to Slate's Audio Book Club.

I'm Megan O'Rourke, a culture critic for Slate.

And joining me today are Michael Agger, a Slate editor and writer.

Hello, Michael.

Hello.

And Troy Patterson, Slate's TV critic, among other things.

Hey, Megan.

Today, we are discussing a book I'm really excited to talk about Tom McCarthy's Remainder.

It is, what can we say about Remainder?

I'm flipping the pages here.

It's the story of a man who has suffered an accident and becomes preoccupied, well, he suffers an accident.

He is granted a settlement, a very large settlement.

And he's preoccupied for a while with that word settlement and enunciates the tea in it of eight and a half million pounds.

Is this correct?

Yeah, it's a Titoi Metso and Fellini's Italian.

Wonderful.

And becomes preoccupied, debates what he's going to do with this money and becomes preoccupied with creating reenactments,

or rather enactments that become reenactments.

And what can we say about these enactments and reenactments?

They're designed to elicit a feeling that he gets every now and then this kind of tingling feeling.

It starts actually when

he first thinks about the moment before the accident that he had. He remembers the feeling of the

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