Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-911 the Mysterydoc follows a young writer & his wife as he attempts to write his second book a national epic he hopes will last forever & as he searches for a form that will express the world as it has become revealing the interconnectedness of all our lives Pop-up ads internet search results spam lines of code frames of film & television mix with canonical works of literature alchemical manuscripts transcripts of personal conversations & the story of a man who wakes up one morning not knowing who he is a blank document called themysterydoc newly appeared on his computer Part love story part prose poem part documentary part existential whodunit part future-fiction part Bildungsroman part memoir the Mysterydoc is about the quest to find something lasting in a world where everything is in danger of slipping away Love loss birth death technology terrorism & the American Dream come together to form a great symphonic work that dazzles in both its structure & in its deep emotional resonance