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Bester Wrook
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Expected 27 May 27'I loved it...weirdly existential and about all of life' - Sheila Heiti
THE SIMS meets TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
During the War on Terror, a Palestinian-Lebanese-Irish-American twelve-year-old girl starts playing the Sims. Her Sims have big beds, babies and husbands. But perhaps more important are their Wants, and the eternal struggle to pacify and prioritise them. Should she save one from drowning in a ladderless pool, or upgrade a favourite character's spring wardrobe?
As the line between game and gamer becomes increasingly porous, with both parties' Wants and Needs ever-expanding, our narrator begins to forget who the main character really is.
BESTER WROOK explores the absurdities of youth and suburbia with an elastic intelligence that introduces Nora Obeid as a major new talent.
THE SIMS meets TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
During the War on Terror, a Palestinian-Lebanese-Irish-American twelve-year-old girl starts playing the Sims. Her Sims have big beds, babies and husbands. But perhaps more important are their Wants, and the eternal struggle to pacify and prioritise them. Should she save one from drowning in a ladderless pool, or upgrade a favourite character's spring wardrobe?
As the line between game and gamer becomes increasingly porous, with both parties' Wants and Needs ever-expanding, our narrator begins to forget who the main character really is.
BESTER WROOK explores the absurdities of youth and suburbia with an elastic intelligence that introduces Nora Obeid as a major new talent.
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Expected publication May 27, 2027
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Poignant, playful, uncanny. Bester Wrook captures the ethos of early 21st century precarity and the reality collapse of digital consciousness, which adolescent Americans inherited in real time. Obeid's debut novel scrutinizes family, displacement, ego, and imagination with seamless preternatural intimacy. A slick, slippy bildungsroman and masterpiece of economical style.
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