A Rising of the Lights
A Rising of the Lights is a preorder and will not be available for playback until 06/29/2027.
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“A wildly imaginative, deeply hilarious, and surprisingly tender story of the paths life takes when you don’t take a life path. Morbid, insane, brilliant, and packed with the kind of darkly funny philosophical insights that make sense of an increasingly terrifying, tech-dominated world. Spending time with this narrator is a thousand times more fun than AI.”
Lexi Freiman, author of The Book of Ayn
From Booker-shortlisted author Steve Toltz, an audacious comic lament for a world that no longer knows itself
“The cure for loneliness causes loneliness. That’s the human condition.”
In a reeling world of fraudsters and hypnotists, sleep talkers and estranged twins, false alibis and second chances, Rusty Wilson is beset on all sides by mysteries. Why was his childhood decided by a throw of dice, why has his wife confessed to a lover, and why do his parents no longer wish to see him?
When Rusty loses his job to an AI system, Edwina, the mercurial friend of his youth, finds him a new role as an oracle to the young. But how can he advise anyone on what it means to be human when artificial consciousness appears within reach? If it’s all just one more con, it’s not clear who’s scamming who. Besides, should any of it matter to Rusty, when all he wants is for those he loves to love him back?
What holds a life together when everything is coming apart?