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Never Human
No one admits it. No one talks about it—but everyone is hollow.
Abandoned, 11-year-old Ismael Canul is a case number in the System. The hollow people didn't want him, but he’s surrounded by them everywhere.
Sylvie is his only companion, but she isn't real—she isn't even hollow.
But there is a way—there might be a way—to make her real. To make her solid in a world of hollows.
Ismael will have to play the game, gaming the System, to bring Sylvie to life.
"Pygmalion" meets "The Castle" in Serret's interrogation of the American Dream for the trampled. An exigent self-critique of the American novel by the American novel, "Never Human" confronts indigenous and immigrant anomie, the coloniality of voice, and the effacement of identity within the post–Cold War milieu.
Abandoned, 11-year-old Ismael Canul is a case number in the System. The hollow people didn't want him, but he’s surrounded by them everywhere.
Sylvie is his only companion, but she isn't real—she isn't even hollow.
But there is a way—there might be a way—to make her real. To make her solid in a world of hollows.
Ismael will have to play the game, gaming the System, to bring Sylvie to life.
"Pygmalion" meets "The Castle" in Serret's interrogation of the American Dream for the trampled. An exigent self-critique of the American novel by the American novel, "Never Human" confronts indigenous and immigrant anomie, the coloniality of voice, and the effacement of identity within the post–Cold War milieu.
102 pages, Paperback
Published February 18, 2025
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C. P. Serret
4 books4 followersC.P. Serret has an expansive background in the arts and technology and resides in the Southwest.
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