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Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: The Paris Deception by Bryn Turnbull.With a street-slick future-speak worthy of A Clockwork Orange and an unflinching eye for the degeneration of our cities, Womack portrays a relentlessly convincing tomorrow that will leave no reader unmoved. As bad turns to worse for her family, despair twists Lola into a vengeful killer. There two new friends, Iz and Jude, teach her how to steal and instruct her in the ways of the mean streets. Womack displays this bleak world through the diary of 12-year-old Lola Hart, a student at a private girls' school whose financially strapped family moves to Manhattan's poor and troubled Upper West Side, on the edge of Harlem. Police and the National Guard patrol the poorer areas as though they were occupied territories riot fires burn continuously in Queens and Brooklyn jobs are as scarce as affordable homes and the streets are perilous. The only difference between Womack's near-future New York City and our own is that everything is just that much worse. Flecked with black humor, this is speculative fiction at its eerie best.” - Entertainment WeeklyĪ sort of prequel to his previous novels (Ambient, Elvissey, etc.), Womack's latest may be his best, a dark and riveting look at where our disintegrating, crime-ridden society may be headed. In this novel, “Womack’s stark vision of the United States’s decline is an uncompromising satire that, perhaps even more than it did in the mid-1990s, forces us to confront a world instantly recognizable as our own” ( Los Angeles Review of Books). Dick Award, has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut for his vivid prose and unbridled imagination. In the pages of her diary, Lola documents her family’s attempts to adjust as the city and the country spin out of control. Riots, fires, TB outbreaks, roaming gangs, and civil unrest have become commonplace, threatening the very fabric of life in New York. They move to a small apartment near Harlem, and Lola enrolls in public school-but the Harts aren’t alone in their troubles. It’s gotten so bad that they can no longer afford their Manhattan apartment or the tuition for Lola’s exclusive private school. Her father is a writer, but no one is buying his scripts. Her mother is a teacher, but she’s lost her job.
Now the twelve-year-old girl’s once comfortable life is slowly falling apart. Until recently, Lola Hart’s biggest problem was her annoying little sister. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: In a dystopian future New York, a girl’s diary chronicles her life as society begins to crumble around her.
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