Consists of six crisscrossing narratives set along the old Route 66, from the Inland Empire to the terminus just off Sunset Boulevard. The stories span the years from the late 1950s to the present, and the characters are bound by a fact unknown to them: they have each checked out the same public library copy of The Great Gatsby.

Brian Rogers was an award-winning playwright and one-time stand-up comedian. His stories have appeared in Story Magazine, Convergence­, The Exeter Bulletin, The Other Side, and The City: San Francisco's Magazine. He lived in Orange County and taught in Claremont, California.