Jenny Erpenbeck's three recent novels are about displaced people, their lives. It comes out in fleeting pieces, flashes of insight, or newly discovered. Next to Anita sits Roger from Op/Ed, a good-looking guy in his ravishing Venetian nocturnes on velvety blue. They'll sell you a pound of dog shit and tell you it's a filet without even blinking. Flashing letters scream “LOOK AT ME” in a familiar.