Edisson and Jeremiah

by Michael Carin

In the year 2020, at the height of the pandemic, an enigmatic woman gives birth to a boy named Edisson. Fourteen years later, the boy performs a magic show unlike any ever staged – a magic show destined to be the most watched, most debated, most controversial in history. Sitting in the audience is a ruin of a man named Jeremy Vanderbilt Delaney, a onetime celebrity journalist with patrician blood and a privileged heritage. As the remarkable magic show develops, events transpire to reveal how religious fanaticism and the deep fracture in American culture shattered Jeremy Delaney's life and branded him with the name Jeremiah. Ultimately, Edisson's show demonstrates a liberating path for Jeremiah, and offers a healing lesson for a divided America.

500 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2025

About the author

Michael Carin trained as a political theorist at McGill University, where he also studied under the godfather of Canadian literature, Hugh MacLennan. Mr. Carin served for many years as Editor-In-Chief of Montreal Business Magazine, and is the author of several novels including Five Hundred Keys, The Kremlin Papers and the work of alternate history Churchill At Munich. In his novel Edisson and Jeremiah (winner of the Guernica Prize), he conceives the story of history’s most controversial magic show, while laying bare the pathological duality of American culture.

Reviews

[Lucien Telford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant. Audacious. Thought provoking. Endlessly entertaining. Reminiscent of Emily St. John Mandel's "Station Eleven." Carin's writing is as always, deliberate and precise. "Edisson" is Michael Carin's finest work. A must read for all fans of literary and speculative fiction.
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