Woke Up Lonely

✍ Scribed by Fiona Maazel

• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-us
• Weight: 241 KB
• Edition: First Graywold paperback
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The dizzying new novel by Fiona Maazel, a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35"

• One of the Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2013
• An April IndieNext Pick

Thurlow Dan is the founder of the Helix, a cult that promises to cure loneliness in the twenty-first century. With its communes and speed-dating, mixers and confession sessions, the Helix has become a national phenomenon--and attracted the attention of governments worldwide. But Thurlow, camped out in his Cincinnati headquarters, is lonely--for his ex-wife, Esme, and their daughter, whom he hasn't seen in ten years.

Esme, for her part, is a covert agent who has spent her life spying on Thurlow, mostly to protect him from the law. Now, with her superiors demanding results, she recruits four misfits to botch a reconnaissance mission in Cincinnati. But when Thurlow takes them hostage, he ignites a siege of the Helix House that will change all their lives forever.

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