The premise of “America Fantastica,” the latest work by novelist Tim O’Brien, feels like the standard plot for a crime caper. A JCPenney employee in a small California town walks into a bank to rob it and goes on the run with $81,000 on hand and the teller who’s been flirting with him. But O’Brien is no standard novelist.
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