Baldwin's debut novella follows the misadventures of Jacob, a young man from Brooklyn who struggles to find his centre of gravity. What emerges is an anti-bildungsroman - a work that is reminiscent of James Thurber with clipped pieces of narrative interspersed with bouncy epistolary bits and off-the-cuff meditations on junk food and crackpot friends and family. Part Tao Lin, part SJ Perelman, The Wilshire Sun is a book full of dynamic, slyly original language and off-kilter imagery.