“But no, what interested him, psychologically speaking, was the sense of continuity itself, the mind's insistence that this was the same Regan he'd known when he was eight; had anything befallen her, the Regan he lost would have been the one who'd perched on the black rocks of the park back then, with all her futures inside.”

American author

Garth Risk Hallberg is an American author known for his debut novel, City on Fire, published by Knopf in 2015. He made his literary debut with that novel, which established him as a novelist to watch. Beyond that, the available record here is limited, so the main point of reference is his first book and his work as an author.