In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds; that their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac. That is why they're banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. Tierney James dreams of a society that doesn't pit friend against friend or woman against woman. She fears the brutal elements, the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. But her greatest threat may very well be the other girls
"At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else's phone had warn thin. Within a year she had moved to Silicon Valley to take up a job at a data analytics startup in San Francisco. Leaving her business casual skirts and shirts in the wardrobe, she began working in company-branded t-shirts. She has a healthy income for the first time in her life. She felt like part of the future. But a tide was beginning to turn. People were speaking of tech startups as surveillance companies. Out of sixty employees, only eight of her colleagues were women. Casual sexism was rife. Sexual harassment cases were proliferating. And soon, like everywhere else, she was addicted to the internet, refreshing the news, refreshing social media, scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. Slowly, she began to realise that her blind faith in ambitious, arrogant young men from America's soft suburbs wasn't just her own personal pathology. It had become a global affliction. 'Uncanny Valley' is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of our generation's very own gold rush. It's a story about the tension between old and new, between art and tech, between the quest for money and the quest for meaning - about how our world is changing forever."-- Book jacket
Desde los campos de remolacha de Dakota del Norte hasta los campamentos de National Forest en California y el programa CamperForce de Amazon en Texas, los empleadores han encontrado una nueva mano de obra de bajo costo: temporeros estadounidenses adultos. Atrapados por hipotecas y un Seguro Social insuficiente, decenas de miles de estas víctimas invisibles de la Gran Recesión han tomado la carretera en vehículos recreativos, formando una comunidad de nómadas que se autodenominan workampers. Jessica Bruder, en su vehículo de segunda mano llamado «Van Halen», se une a esta comunidad para conocer más de cerca a sus miembros. Acompaña a la protagonista Linda May y a otros en diversas tareas, desde limpiar inodoros en un campamento hasta trabajar en un almacén y en la cosecha de remolacha. Bruder narra una historia reveladora sobre el lado oscuro de la economía estadounidense y el precario futuro que podría aguardar a muchos más. Sin embargo, también destaca la resiliencia y creatividad de estos estadounidenses que han dejado atrás la vida convencional para sobrevivir. Linda May, que sueña con construir su propia casa sostenible, representa a aquellos que, a pesar de las dificultades, no han perdido la esperanza.
Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke, so it's back to Bush Falls for the town's most famous pariah. His brother avoids him, his former classmates beat him up, and the members of the book club just hurl their copies of Bush Falls at his house. But with the help of some old friends, Joe discovers that coming home isn't all bad--and that maybe the best things in life are second chances.Fans of Nick Hornby and Jennifer Weiner will love this book, by turns howling funny, fiercely intelligent, and achingly poignant. As evidenced by The Book of Joe's success in both the foreign and movie markets, Jonathan Tropper has created a compelling, incredibly resonant story.
