Fiction. The noted American playwright and novelist Len Jenkin has created a stunning new fiction in N JUDAH, the story of a San Francisco woman who, upon hearing of the death in New Orleans of her very special son, travels with an old lover to the American South. What they encounter in pre-Katrina New Orleans is as hidden and bizarre as the city itself: a mirrored maze of deception and half-truths that eventually erupt into violence. "Len Jenkin has pulled off something striking here: with comic-book exaggeration and a cynical luridness, he has created a delicate, moving novel set in a blasted, despairing future, early in the 21st century"-The New York Times Book Review.