Review |

In City of Orange, YA writer David Yoon’s adult novel, unexplained desolation gives way to incapacitating heartbreak

• The world is a stretch of abandoned concrete drainage in which, improbably, a man survives. He can’t recall why he’s in pain or what he’s lost – only fragments
• Yoon’s oddly structured tale takes a while to make sense – and when eventually it does for the survivor, the heartbreak is enough to incapacitate him