{"product_id":"public-access-afterworld-a-novel","title":"Public Access Afterworld by Jane Schoenbrun","description":"\u003cp\u003eA mysterious realm on the other side of our screens. A dark force that draws victims into its static. The unlikely hero called to save them and herself from this electric hell. Public Access Afterworld is the profound, binge-all-night, headrush of a novel by the celebrated filmmaker of I Saw the TV Glow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Beautiful, funny, and scathing . . . I stayed up all night binge-reading.\"—SenLinYu\u003cbr\u003e\"Gave me a vertiginous thrill I haven’t encountered since David Mitchell.\"—Torrey Peters\u003cbr\u003e\"Heart-wrenching, hilarious, visionary, and so damned smart, this novel is a major work by a major writer.\"—Paul Tremblay\u003cbr\u003e\"Utterly hypnotic.\"—Lev Grossman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFind the receiver. Make it real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 5:35pm on September 3rd, 1988, Dallas weatherman Ray \"Can You Say Sunshine\" Davino makes passing reference to Public Access Afterworld during a rambling monologue, right before he puts a gun to his head on live television and pulls the trigger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn June 12th, 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two lonely, TV-obsessed suburban teens who might be falling in love, gather in Erin's basement to watch TV's analog-to-digital transition. But in the static that follows, Erin witnesses surreal broadcasts from a pirate TV network called Public Access Afterworld and their lives are changed forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventeen years later, Bethany Peters toils through the night shift at megacorp GlobalVill's bleak Austin campus. A trans content moderator, she spends her evenings reviewing an endless stream of horrific videos. But then a young streamer begins to crop up in her feed calling out to Public Access Afterworld.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what is Public Access Afterworld?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning decades and realities, with an unforgettable ensemble of outcasts and nerds, especially the messy but wholly relatable Bethany who must overcome paranoia and self-doubt to transform into a hero of our times, Public Access Afterworld will have you reading through the night and rooting for its characters to survive. A mesmerizing mashup of speculative fiction, horror, and conspiracy, it marks the arrival of a major new force in contemporary fiction by a groundbreaking filmmaker who's been compared to David Lynch and Paul Thomas Anderson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":68204802474133,"sku":null,"price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0715\/3424\/8085\/files\/bloodoverbrighthaven_800x800px_20_a337ea8a-139d-40f1-b80e-db411681c641.png?v=1794257115","url":"https:\/\/storiedbookery.com\/products\/public-access-afterworld-a-novel","provider":"Storied Bookery \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}