They Is Us

✍ Scribed by Janowitz, Tama

• Publisher: Friday Project
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 421 KB
• Edition: Limited ed
• Category: Fiction
• City: London, United States, United States.
• ISBN-13: 9781900000086

✦ Synopsis

Oryx & Crake meets Douglas Coupland. An unforgettable vision of the future of America.
Years from now America finds itself split between the rich and the poor. The haves live in luxury within the small regions that remain unpolluted while the have-nots inhabit a toxic suburbia full of terrorism, crime and genetic mutations.
Perhaps not all that different from today then?
They Is Us tells the story of one family from the poor side as they go about their daily lives. Julie has a job as a summer intern at an animal laboratory. She can't resist taking home the discarded mutants and her house is filled with genetic cast offs. Her mother, Murielle, has kicked out her stepfather and now, seemingly from nowhere, finds herself subject to the attentions of multi-millionaire businessman A.J.M. Bishrop. Bishrop is only dating Murielle because he wants to get Julie's underage sister Tahnee into bed.
Just your typical American family story.
Set against a backdrop of increasingly invasive technology, growing pollution and the President of the USA's impending gay marriage (to be broadcast live across the nation) They Is Us features a cast of unforgettable characters that will stick in your mind long after you finish the book.
Tama Janowitz has written a prophetic novel which is funny, and frequently hilarious, but is so uncannily believable that it is chilling to read. This really could be the future.
**

From Publishers Weekly

In her first novel since 2003's Peyton Amberg , Janowitz imagines a surreal and dysfunctional world where toxic waste is everywhere, the rich are very rich and everyone else is very poor, drugs are prevalent and jobs are scarce, cockroaches have become pets while birds have disappeared completely, and literacy has all but vanished. Most people have become so complacent about the many horrors around them that they no longer notice new ones when they appear. Focusing on one family and their circle of friends and acquaintances, Janowitz predicts an apathy-drenched way of living that slowly becomes all too plausible. This edgy, uncomfortable novel is not an enjoyable read by any measure, but those who pick it up will find themselves simultaneously horrified and transfixed, compelled to persist until the grim conclusion. (Jan.)

Review

"In her first novel since 2003's Peyton Amberg, Janowitz imagines a surreal and dysfunctional world where toxic waste is everywhere, the rich are very rich and everyone else is very poor, drugs are prevalent and jobs are scarce, cockroaches have become pets while birds have disappeared completely, and literacy has all but vanished . . . This edgy, uncomfortable novel is not an enjoyable read by any measure, but those who pick it up will find themselves simultaneously horrified and transfixed, compelled to persist until the grim conclusion." Publishers Weekly

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✦ Subjects

United States