was first published in January 2017. The book simulates four versions of Archie Ferguson’s life by varying key events in the character's childhood. Auster thus endeavours to find the 'true Archie', the one independent of the events he couldn't influence.

Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.