The Epiphany Machine

The Epiphany Machine

*Best New Science Fiction for Summer byÂ The Washington Post
*A Most-Anticipated book of 2017 byÂ The Millions

Everyone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too.
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Thatâ€™s the slogan. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its usersâ€™ forearms. Itâ€™s an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious to everybody except ourselves. This particular ad has been circulating New York since the 1960s and it works. But, oddly enough, so might the device...

A small stream of city dwellers buy into this cult of the epiphany machine, including Venter Lowoodâ€™s parents. This stigma follows them when they move upstate, where Venter canâ€™t avoid the whispers of teachers and neighbors any more than he can ignore the machineâ€™s accurate predictions: his motherâ€™s abandonment and his fatherâ€™s disinterest. So when Venterâ€™s grandmother finally asks him to confront the epiphany machine and inoculate himself against his familyâ€™s mistakes, heâ€™s only too happy to oblige.

Like his parents before him, Venter is quick to fall under the spell of the deviceâ€™s sweat-stained, profane, and surprisingly charming operator, Adam Lyons. But unlike them, Venter gets close enough to Adam to learn a dark secret. Thereâ€™s an undeniable pattern between specific epiphanies and violent crimes. And Adam wonâ€™t jeopardize the privacy of his customers by alerting the police.

It may be a hoax, but that doesnâ€™t mean what Adam is selling isnâ€™t also spot-on. And in this sprawling, snarling tragicomedy about accountability in contemporary America, the greater danger is that Adam Lyonâ€™s apparatus may just be right about us all. This is "can't-miss pop culture."(Vox)
Country USA
Brand Putnam
Manufacturer G.P. Putnam's Sons
Binding Hardcover
Color Red
ReleaseDate 2017-07-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780399575433

Country	USA
Brand	Putnam
Manufacturer	G.P. Putnam's Sons
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Red
ReleaseDate	2017-07-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780399575433

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