Although the time period of each of the new old stories isn’t really specified, it can be seen by noticing the technology that the characters are using. Stupid Old Man is a road trip in which large folded-paper roadmaps, telephone booths, pizza kits and the discovery of colour TV appear. It can only be the early 60s. In Blueberry Fields the “three guys dressed as a rock band” play Hotel California, setting the story in the 70s. In She’s Making Pancakes, landlines and answering machines are in use; in Hôtel des Anges, cruising by laptop is in full swing, but smartphones haven’t yet appeared. Finally, in Marseillan Plage, Seh avoids “opening emails and texts and voicemails, avoiding notifications and updates and other relentless demands,” and experiences a shocking epiphany.
A serial novella in several episodes, these stand-alone stories are glimpses into the ever shifting worldly and spiritual journey of Seh Goodnight. Set in several locations on a couple of continents, Seh encounters a multitude of sweet and poignant and disturbing characters on his path to ultimate realization.
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