The Apartment

The Apartment (2012) by Greg Baxter. An American with no name moves from a desert city in the United States to a cold city in a country with no name. A woman he meets there agrees to help him look for an apartment, and this book covers the day they spend together exploring the city and looking at apartments. Towards the middle of the novel, the man starts telling of his memories of his previous life in the United States and in Iraq, where he did war work for the Americans. His memories are quite vivid and revealing, and they provide the meat on the bones of this book. It's a pretty easy read, though not terribly emotionally rewarding. Grade: B+