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02526aam a2200361Mi 4500 001 3A335CEE447311EDBB956A3F21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221005010052 008 210910s2022 enka 000 f eng d 020 $a 1913505286 020 $a 9781913505288 035 $a (OCoLC)1267687323 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d DPL $d GK8 $d VP@ $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ny 082 04 $a 813.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Stevens, Jessi Jezewska, $d 1990- $e author. 245 14 $a The visitors / $c Jessi Jezewska Stevens. 264 1 $a Sheffield : $b And Other Stories, $c 2022. 300 $a 268 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a "On the eve of the Occupy Wall Street protests, C is flat broke. Once a renowned textile artist, she's now the sole proprietor of an arts supply store in Lower Manhattan. Divorced, alone, at loose ends, C is stuck with a struggling business, a stack of bills, a new erotic interest in her oldest girlfriend, and a persistent hallucination in the form of a rogue garden gnome with a pointed interest in systems collapse... C needs to put her medical debt and her sex life in order, but how to make concrete plans with this little visitor haunting her apartment, sporting a three-piece suit and delivering impromptu lectures on the vulnerability of the national grid? Moreover, what's all this computer code doing in the story of her life? And do the answers to all of C's questions lie with an eco-hacktivist cabal threatening to end modern life as we know it? Replaying recent history through a distorting glass, The Visitors is a mordantly funny tour through through a world where not only civic infrastructure but our darkest desires (not to mention our novels) are vulnerable to malware; where mythical creatures talk like Don DeLillo; where love is little more than a blip in our metadata. It peers into How We Got Here and asks What We Do Next, charting the last days of a broken status quo as the path is cleared for something new."--Book jacket. 650 0 $a Survival $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Businesswomen $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Gnomes $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Business $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Paranormal fiction. 650 0 $a Dystopian fiction. 650 0 $a Psychological fiction. 651 0 $a Lower Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) $v Fiction. 941 $a 3 952 $l GLAX641 $d 20231201010753.0 952 $l YUPD232 $d 20221005021931.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20221005014423.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3A335CEE447311EDBB956A3F21ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search