The Visitors
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Narrated by:
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Taylor Meskimen
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On the eve of the Occupy Wall Street protests, C is flat broke. Once a renowned textile artist, she’s now the sole proprietor of an arts supply store in Lower Manhattan. Divorced, alone, at loose ends, C is stuck with a struggling business, a stack of bills, a new erotic interest in her oldest girlfriend, and a persistent hallucination in the form of a rogue garden gnome with a pointed interest in systems collapse …
C needs to put her medical debt and her sex life in order, but how to make concrete plans with this little visitor haunting her apartment, sporting a three-piece suit, and delivering impromptu lectures on the vulnerability of the national grid? Moreover, what’s all this computer code doing in the story of her life? And do the answers to all of C’s questions lie with an eco-hacktivist cabal threatening to end modern life as we know it?
Replaying recent history through a distorting glass, The Visitors is a mordantly funny tour through a world where not only civic infrastructure but our darkest desires are vulnerable to malware; where mythical creatures talk like Don DeLillo; where love is little more than a blip in our metadata. It peers into how we got here and asks what we do next, charting the last days of a broken status quo as the path is cleared for something new.
©2022 Jessi Jezewska Stevens (P)2022 Blackstone PublishingWhat listeners say about The Visitors
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 24-02-2024
Loved it
I loved this story. It felt relevant in today’s world. The story is set in an alternate financial crisis of 08 with a backdrop of financial crisis, economic uncertainty and eco hacktivists attempting to black out city grids and supply chains (hello 2019 pandemic) the pendulum swings between the real and the surreal, as the main character develops a friendship and fondness with a hallucinatory gnome perhaps a projection of her relationship losses, pain, illness and general unprocessed emotions or a manifestation of malware. The main character tries to keep herself alive and her small business afloat while wrestling with the overall impacts of declining health and a impending sense of social doom and economic uncertainty. The author blends in so many struggles felt today post pandemic and has a beautiful, poetic, clever way of writing. It’s dreamy and surreal, concerning and somehow comforting, bizarre and yet oddly relatable. Some reviews dubbed this style “denuded realism” the relatively-recent subgenre of fiction centring on alienated young women typified by the output of authors like Ottessa Moshfegh and Catherine Lacey, I personally rated this story on the same level as my year of rest and relaxation and better than most other booktok recipes by far! Definitely in my top 5 reads this year. Will definitely read the other works by this author and the hard copy.
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