{"product_id":"9780593978382","title":"Public Access Afterworld","description":"\u003cb\u003e A 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. \u003ci\u003ePublic Access Afterworld\u003c\/i\u003e is the profound, binge-all-night, headrush of a novel by the celebrated filmmaker of \u003ci\u003eI Saw the TV Glow\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTeenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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“Psychedelic horror of the first order.”—Grady Hendrix\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\u003cbr\u003e“Dazzling and politically acute, Schoenbrun’s debut announces a major literary voice.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly’\u003c\/i\u003es 10 Most Anticipated Books • One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Review of Books, The Bookseller\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReactor, Library Journal, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDebutiful\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFind the receiver. Make it real.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 5:35 p.m. on September 3, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn June 12, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut what \u003ci\u003eis \u003c\/i\u003ePublic Access Afterworld?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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—\u003ci\u003ePublic Access Afterworld \u003c\/i\u003ewill have you reading through the night and rooting for its characters to survive. A mesmerizing mash-up 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.","brand":"Jane Schoenbrun","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":52113843618090,"sku":"9780593978382","price":45.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0112\/1065\/3760\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ec52a3cc-840a-41ff-9bc2-b7b4ed54ab34.jpg?v=1784746382","url":"https:\/\/onceuponabookstore.ca\/products\/9780593978382","provider":"Once Upon a Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}