Kurt Andersen & Rosanne Cash

Kurt Andersen discusses The Breakup in conversation with Rosanne Cash — a razor-sharp near-future novel set in 2045, where a marriage crumbles against the backdrop of a United States redrawn by civil war.

After surviving the turmoil of the 2030s, Natalie lives in rural Tennessee — now part of the new Free American Republic — while Asher remains in San Francisco in the smaller, reconstituted United States. When they're brought back together for a college road trip with their seventeen-year-old, they navigate a strange new American landscape transformed by terrorism and technology, confronting the same questions the nation has wrestled with for a generation: what differences are irreconcilable, and when is something broken worth saving?

Andersen is the bestselling author of Fantasyland and co-founder of Spy magazine.