Washington, D.C. has monuments, museums, and Metro delays—but for Benny and Viv it also has the impossible: portraits that text you, Metro platforms that turn into oceans, dinosaurs that want to feel the sun, tomatoes that unionize, and escalators that trap you until you have a revelation about ice cream. In 100 linked stories, two friends bike, bus, and stumble into a capital where the Lincoln Memorial echo talks back, pandas negotiate contracts, and every landmark has a secret life. Warm, funny, and gently absurd, Benny & Viv is a love letter to D.C. and to the idea that the right city turns anyone into an accidental adventurer. For readers who like magic grounded in real places and humor in the everyday turned wonderfully strange.
