How the Ə Got Producted
A Love Story
by NK von S
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Pub Date Jan 01 2022 | Archive Date Feb 13 2022
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Description
A childhood trauma leaves N. emotionally stalled but yearning for connection. When she meets a seductive but damaged young attorney, she falls hard, overlooking his fear of intimacy, dark past, and curious technology vendetta. But their affair ends abruptly, sending N. on a quest to reinvent herself. She ascends the ranks of Washington DC’s influence sector, becoming a prominent lobbyist for the biomedicaltechnology industry. From there, she parlays her “special skill set” into a post at the top of the Bureau of Biomedicaltechnology, where the mysterious technology of an eccentric and dashing tech guru is stuck in the Bureau’s labyrinthine approval process.
The technology is known as the Ə.
What is the Ə?
Will a certain attorney, now a crusading presidential candidate, succeed in his bid to block its release?
Can N. harness the demons from her past to unleash the Ə into the eager hands of the consuming public?
Answers to these questions and more unfold in a battle that pits the regulatory state against big tech, 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 sly feminist wink at the technocratic Kafkaesque, all wound around the axle of a love story that isn't.
Advance Praise
"[T]his intriguing foray into a labyrinth of sex, business, and government features a protagonist as delightfully unpredictable as her own career path."--Kirkus Reviews
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 read and hysterical , I was hooked very quickly. NK 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 S 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!--booksrnb.wixsite.com
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780578769301 |
| PRICE | $15.00 (USD) |
