Set in a post-apocalyptic world as unique and vividly imagined as those of Station Eleven and The Girl with All the Gifts, a startling and timely debut that explores what it is to be human and what it truly means to be connected in the digital age.
Who has taken her? How do you begin to look for someone in a world without technology? And what happens when you can no longer even be certain that the people you love are really who they claim to be?.
But then their six-year-old daughter, Bea, goes missing.
Tom and Kate have managed to protect themselves and their family. and maybe even that is no longer true. . .
In a world where survival of the fittest is a way of life, there is no one to depend upon except yourself .
And while the collapse has demolished the trappings of the modern world, it has also eroded trust.
Minor ailments, previously treatable, now kill.
Finding food is truly a matter of life and death.
The Feed\'s collapse, taking modern society with it, leaves people scavenging to survive.
But that opposition to constant connection serves Tom and Kate well when the Feed collapses after a horrific tragedy shatters the world as they know it.
After all, his father created it.
Tom and Kate use the Feed, but Tom has resisted its addiction, which makes him suspect to his family. in fact, of anyone and everyone else in the world. . .
Every interaction, every emotion, every image can be shared through it; it is the essential tool everyone relies on to know and understand the thoughts and feelings of partners, parents, friends, children, colleagues, bosses, employees .
It instantaneously links us to all information and global events as they break.
The Feed is accessible everywhere, by everyone, at any time.
NOW WE MUST LEARN TO LIVE WITHOUT IT.
IT DESTROYS US.
IT MAKES US.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world as unique and vividly imagined as those of Station Eleven and The Girl with All the Gifts, a startling and timely debut that explores what it is to be human and what it truly means to be connected in the digital age
