Small town, many stories in âAmerican Deliriumâ A dizzying, delirious new novel By Max Winter Globe Correspondent,Updated February 18, 2021, 6:50 p.m. Email to a Friend Betina González, author of "American Delirium"Handout âThe day he found a woman hiding in his closet, Vik had dreamt about winning a Ping-Pong tournament.â This first sentence of âAmerican Deliriumâ raises the novelâs implicit questions: What is life but a series of illogical juxtapositions, followed by our attempt to make sense of them? And without a guarantee of success, only small notch...