Come Join Our Disease: Shortlisted for The Gordon Burn Prize 2021

Sam Byers

Come Join Our Disease: Shortlisted for The Gordon Burn Prize 2021
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Country
United Kingdom
Published
17 March 2022
Pages
368
ISBN
9780571360093

Come Join Our Disease: Shortlisted for The Gordon Burn Prize 2021

Sam Byers

The new novel from the author of Perfidious Albion - a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and redemption.

Maya is homeless. When her site is razed by ruthless authorities, she’s detained. But then, Maya is given a lifeline; a chance to re-enter society again. A tech company - angling to raise its philanthropic profile - offers her a job and a flat. There’s one caveat: Maya must document her inspiring progress on Instagram to show that anyone can be productive; perfect.

Yet Maya realises that sickness is a kind of revolution. With other outcasts, Maya starts a movement: billboards promoting wellness are defaced all over London and her media feed is flooded with obscene, filthy images. Suddenly, questions arise about the forces unleashed: liberation and madness, protest and anarchy, rebellion and chaos.

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