A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Featured on
recommended reading lists by the New York Times * New York Post *
Library Journal * Thrillist * Locus * USA TODAY "The first great
science fiction novel of 2020. " -NPR "As intellectually playful as
the best of Thomas Pynchon and as sardonically warm as the best of
Kurt Vonnegut. . . A masterful and humane gem of a novel." -Shaun
Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters Blending the piercing
humor of Alexandra Kleeman and the jagged satire of Black Mirror,
an audacious, eerily prescient debut novel that chronicles the rise
and fall of a massive high-rise housing complex, and the lives it
affected before - and after - its demise. Standing nearly five
hundred stories tall, Los Verticales once bustled with life and
excitement. Now this marvel of modern architecture and
nontraditional urban planning has collapsed into a pile of rubble
known as the Heap. In exchange for digging gear, a rehabilitated
bicycle, and a small living stipend, a vast community of Dig Hands
removes debris, trash, and bodies from the building's mountainous
remains, which span twenty acres of unincorporated desert land.
Orville Anders burrows into the bowels of the Heap to find his
brother Bernard, the beloved radio DJ of Los Verticales, who is
alive and miraculously broadcasting somewhere under the massive
rubble. For months, Orville has lived in a sea of campers that
surrounds the Heap, working tirelessly to free Bernard-the only
known survivor of the imploded city-whom he speaks to every
evening, calling into his radio show. The brothers' conversations
are a ratings bonanza, and the station's parent company, Sundial
Media, wants to boost its profits by having Orville slyly drop
brand names into his nightly talks with Bernard. When Orville
refuses, his access to Bernard is suddenly cut off, but strangely,
he continues to hear his own voice over the airwaves, casually
shilling products as "he" converses with Bernard. What follows is
an imaginative and darkly hilarious story of conspiracy, revenge,
and the strange life and death of Los Verticales that both captures
the wonderful weirdness of community and the bonds that tie us
together.
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