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G.P. Putnam's Sons
July 2017
On Sale: July 18, 2017
Featuring: Venter Lowood; Adam Lyons
432 pages
ISBN: 039957543X
EAN: 9780399575433
Kindle: B01M3U54NB
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A Most-Anticipated book of 2017 by The Millions Everyone else knows the truth about you, now you can
know it, too.
That’s the slogan. The product: a junky contraption that
tattoos personalized revelations on its users’ forearms.
It’s an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious
to everybody except ourselves. This particular one’s been
circulating New York since the 1960s. The ad works. And,
oddly enough, so might the device... A small stream of city dwellers buy into this cult of the
epiphany machine, including Venter Lowood’s parents. This
stigma follows them when they move upstate, where Venter
can’t avoid the whispers of teachers and neighbors any
more than he can ignore the machine’s accurate
predictions: his mother’s abandonment and his father’s
disinterest. So when Venter’s grandmother finally asks him
to confront the epiphany machine and inoculate himself
against his family’s mistakes, he’s only too happy to
oblige. Like his parents before him, Venter is quick to fall under
the spell of the device’s sweat-stained, profane, and
surprisingly charming operator, Adam Lyons. But unlike
them, Venter gets close enough to Adam to learn a dark
secret. There’s an undeniable pattern between specific
epiphanies and violent crimes. And Adam won’t jeopardize
the privacy of his customers by alerting the police. It may be a hoax, but that doesn’t mean what Adam is
selling isn’t also spot-on. And in this sprawling,
snarling tragicomedy about accountability in contemporary
America, the greater danger is that Adam Lyon’s apparatus
may just be right about us all.
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