Last Night at the Lobster, Stuart O’Nan, 2007

O’Nan gives us a miniaturist’s portrait of Manny DeLeon, manager of a Red Lobster restaurant which is being decommissioned, as he opens and then closes his domain for its final night.  The details of his loves, losses, longings, loyalties, and relationships are illuminated through the place of work in his life.  Freud’s Love and Work evident in a Red Lobster.