First published 2018
Tom moves through a society that has discarded its old frameworks. Jobs come and go without warning or pattern. Relationships form and dissolve before they can take root. He takes whatever work appears, makes temporary connections with people who drift away as quickly as they arrived. The categories that once defined life have vanished, leaving him without a map for how to live or who to become. His sense of self starts to fragment under the weight of constant uncertainty. The void at the center of his daily existence grows harder to ignore. Tom faces a choice that will determine his future: fight to maintain his individual identity in a world that no longer supports it, or let himself merge into the shapeless current of contemporary existence.
Genres: dystopia, literary-fiction, contemporary, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: existential-crisis, fish-out-of-water
Setting: Oxford
Period: 21st-Century
32 pages · Paperback · Oxford University Press
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