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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
Hardcover / e-Book
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Science Fiction Alternate History
A Most-Anticipated book of 2017 by The Millions Everyone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too.
Thatโs the slogan. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its usersโ forearms. Itโs an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious to everybody except ourselves. This particular oneโs 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 Lowoodโs parents. This stigma follows them when they move upstate, where Venter canโt avoid the whispers of teachers and neighbors any more than he can ignore the machineโs accurate predictions: his motherโs abandonment and his fatherโs disinterest. So when Venterโs grandmother finally asks him to confront the epiphany machine and inoculate himself against his familyโs mistakes, heโs only too happy to oblige. Like his parents before him, Venter is quick to fall under the spell of the deviceโs sweat-stained, profane, and surprisingly charming operator, Adam Lyons. But unlike them, Venter gets close enough to Adam to learn a dark secret. Thereโs an undeniable pattern between specific epiphanies and violent crimes. And Adam wonโt jeopardize the privacy of his customers by alerting the police. It may be a hoax, but that doesnโt mean what Adam is selling isnโt also spot-on. And in this sprawling, snarling tragicomedy about accountability in contemporary America, the greater danger is that Adam Lyonโs apparatus may just be right about us all.
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