How the Ə Got Producted
A Love Story
by N.K. von S.
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Pub Date 1 Jan 2022 | Archive Date 11 Jan 2022
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Description
A childhood trauma leaves N. emotionally stalled but yearning for connection. When a seductive but damaged young attorney responds to her personal ad, she falls hard, overlooking his curious technology vendetta, fear of intimacy, and dark past.
Their one-sided affair ends abruptly when her lover ghosts her, she later learns, to marry another woman and run for elective office. Adrift but resilient, N. mines a series of seemingly random hookups for the raw materials she uses to reinvent herself as a prominent lobbyist for the biomedical technology industry. She hones a "special skill set"-namely, moral relativism-that lands her at the top of her field. Her infamy draws the attention of a shadowy bureaucrat who recruits her to squash an insurgency led by anti-technology dissidents at the Bureau of Biomedical technology. Once installed at the Bureau, N. encounters the Ə, a technology to improve human connectedness, which the dissidents want to keep from the American consumer. N. throws herself into her assignment, surveilling the dissidents, upending regulatory procedures, and meddling in the plot to suppress the groundbreaking invention. But the Bureau is leaky, and the dissidents have an ally in a U.S. senator and crusading presidential candidate who happens to share a secret past with N. Their confrontation pits the regulatory state against big tech in a battle to a draw, settles an old romantic score, and clears the way for the Ə to change the world forever.
How the Ə Got Producted is a satirical fever dream, a citizen-consumer's trippy meditation on gadgetry and the self, and a slyly feminist take on the Kafkaesque for the postmodern technocracy, all wound around the axle of a love story that isn't.
Advance Praise
5 star rating
I received an ARC for the book "How the Ə Got Producted by N.K. Von Stade" and I dived right into it. A quick red and hysterical , I was hooked very quickly. Nancy definitely knows how to keep her engaged.
The storyline of this satire revolves around Ə and how the protagonist learns of it while she works at Bureau of Biomedicaltechnology. Discovering it on the header of a document she was reading titled “Information Advisory re: NPPD Concerning “Ə” Technology.” for the first time. If you're wondering what Ə is, let me clear the air for you. No one would have said it better than the way N.K von Stade writes in the book dialogued by one of her characters of course -"An atypical notional commodity the existence of which is the subject of fierce debate. ‘Product’ in the Biomedicaltechnology Product Act won’t tell you whether the Ə is a Product or a Non-Product."
The story is narrated by the protagonist and is shown from her point of view. While it dives into defining if Ə is a product or a non-product, what it must be named and the small wins that the lead achieves through this journey is put across in the most engaging was possible. While this could be the smallest summary, the quirks, the ups and down, the leads thought process is all put across so effectively.
Several scenarios like when her mind wanders away from a very important presentation to some sexual thoughts with Jeremy which would be so inappropriate for the situation, but just something that happens makes this book less serious than it sounds.
This book is really witty and thought-provoking in the most unconventional fashion. I truly enjoyed reading this book and look forward to more of the authors work!
Look out for her book coming out in January 2021!
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9780578769301 |
| PRICE | US$2.99 (USD) |
