Youthful mistakes, adult consequences

At the satisfying conclusion of Emily St. John Mandel’s The Lola Quartet, the exhausted protagonist, Gavin Sasaki, contemplates the suburbs at night as he drives north from Florida. He sees “a continuous centerless glimmering of lights, shadows of palm trees on parking lots, malls shining like beacons. … None of the cities had edges anymore, just a long slow reach across landscapes.” full story