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  • Come Join Our Disease

  • By: Sam Byers
  • Narrated by: Heydon Elijah
  • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
  • 2.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Come Join Our Disease

By: Sam Byers
Narrated by: Heydon Elijah
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*** '354 pages of barely mitigated filth. I think I loved it. Deeply admirable... Come Join Our Disease is so bold and interesting that I can imagine it becoming a cult classic... Byers's mastery of tone and attentiveness to every psychological shift confirms him as one of the most accomplished novelists of his generation... anything you read afterwards feels a bit half-hearted.' Sunday Times ***

The new novel from the author of
Perfidious Albion, a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and redemption.

Maya is homeless. When her site is razed by ruthless authorities, she's detained. But then, Maya is given a lifeline; a chance to re-enter society again. A tech company - angling to raise its philanthropic profile - offers her a job and a flat. There's one caveat: Maya must document her inspiring progress on Instagram to show that anyone can be productive; perfect.

Yet Maya realises that sickness is a kind of revolution. With other outcasts, Maya starts a movement: billboards promoting wellness are defaced all over London and her media feed is flooded with obscene, filthy images. Suddenly, questions arise about the forces unleashed: liberation and madness, protest and anarchy, rebellion and chaos.

©2021 Sam Byers (P)2021 Faber & Faber

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"A savvy, subtle chronicler of contemporary malaise." (Financial Times)

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couldn't finish

the story started out well. I liked where I think it was headed. I got to a section where the main character got sick, had diarrhoea, wiped their butt with bread and ate it. that was enough for me. couldn't go any further. couldn't tell you what the story is like from there.

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