You Are Here

“Karin Lin-Greenberg’s thoughtful, empathic You Are Here [is] such a bittersweet treat.”

—ELLE

“This novel is a community and a tour de force account of small town America. How do we survive ourselves and each other? How can we thrive instead of simply co-exist? Lin-Greenberg brings her imperfect yet perfect cast of characters to answer this very question and shows us a way. A magical book, brimming with soul.”

—Weike Wang, author of Joan Is Okay

“A charming and witty work that will also break your heart—a story about America, set in that most American of places: the dying shopping mall.”

—Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of The Evening Hero

“In her gorgeous debut novel You Are Here, Karin Lin-Greenberg shines her magical light on ordinary characters whose lives intersect at the local mall—the most ordinary place in America—to show how remarkable and singular those lives actually are. Every page carries the author’s trademark fusion of poignancy, humor, insight, and yearning, along with the powerful reminder of how the seemingly random connections among us can lead to unexpected grace.”

—Jessica Treadway, author of Lacy Eye and Infinite Dimensions

“With great insight and care, Lin-Greenberg chronicles the daily lives of neighbors connected to a local mall that's soon closing. You Are Here shows that times keep changing, but the American Dream persists.”

 —Sarah Langan, acclaimed author of Good Neighbors

“In this beautifully affecting novel, Karin Lin-Greenberg creates a chorus of characters so fully human they come to feel like friends and neighbors. In lucid, graceful prose, she illuminates how these lives—brought together in the most banal of places, an upstate New York shopping mall—touch each other in unexpected, lasting ways. We become confidantes to their private hopes, fears, and biases, as we watch their intersecting stories blossom into something rich, complex, and larger than the sum of its parts. I’ll be thinking of these people, and this book, for a long time.”

—Lauren Acampora, author of The Hundred Waters

“A boy, a beauty, an elderly gardener, a failed PhD and an artist with scissors: where else could all of these characters meet but at the mall? In Karin Lin-Greenberg’s clear-eyed and heartfelt You Are Here, the failing Greenways Mall makes community out of a group of characters so fractious and real, you feel like you’re hanging out with them at the food court.”

—Alexandra Lange, author of Meet Me At the Fountain, An Inside History of the Mall