Sensation machines, hardcover/adam wilson

A razor-sharp darkly funny, and deeply human rendering of a future thats nearly upon us.

Michael and Wendy Mixner are a Brooklyn-based couple whose marriage is failing in the wake of a personal tragedy.

Michael, a Wall Street trader, is meanwhile keeping a secret: hes lost the couples life savings.

And Wendy, a digital marketing strategist, has been hired onto a data-mining project of epic scale, whose mysterious creator has ambitions to reshape Americas social and political landscapes.

When Michaels best friend is murdered, the evidence leads back to Wendys client, setting off a dangerous chain of events that will profoundly change the couple--and the country.

An endlessly twisty novel of big ideas, Sensation Machines is a brilliantly observed human drama that grapples with greed, automation, universal basic income, revolutionary desires, and a broken justice system.

Adam Wilson implicates not only the powerbrokers gaming the system and getting rich at the intersection of Wall Street, Madison Avenue, Silicon Valley, and Capitol Hill, but all of us: each one of us playing our parts, however willingly or unwillingly, in the vast systems that define and control our lives.

About the Author Adam Wilson is the author of the novel Flatscreen, which was an Indie Next Pick and a National Jewish Book Award Finalist, as well as the short story collection Whats Important is Feeling .

A recipient of the The Paris Reviews Terry Southern Prize for Humor, his work has appeared in Harpers, Tin House, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories , among other publications.

Wilson has taught in the creative writing programs at Columbia and NYU.

He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.