Hazel Green flees her marriage to Byron Gogol, a tech billionaire who runs the Gogol Group, after ten years living in his gleaming, controlled compound. Byron wants to take their relationship to the next level by implanting a device in both their brains so that he can know all of her thoughts at all times. Hazel runs to her widowed father, who lives in a trailer park with a lifelike sex doll as a companion, and Byron sets out to find her. Alissa Nutting writes this satirical novel in a sharp, comic and unsettling tone about surveillance, marriage and control.
It suits readers who like black comedy and near-future satire. Fans of oddball literary fiction will find an inventive story.
Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Curious Generalist. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
