Norma
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9781778430404
Publisher: Invisible Books
Published: Apr 16 2024
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Widowhood and weirdos, online and off, NORMA is so dark it smarts.
It's a terrible freedom to linger unaccounted for.
Norma is waking up and cracking up. Decades of marriage, housekeeping, and family responsibility: buried with her husband Hank. Now, she's free, gorging on an online riot of canceled soap operas, message boards, and grocery store focus groups. Transcribing chatter for fifty cents a minute. It's all of humanity--grim, funny, and desperate--wafting into her world, a world reeking with the funk of old fast food wrappers, cold stale recycled air, and desiccated car upholstery. And one where appropriate boundaries are suddenly slipping too, when a voice from one of her transcripts goes from virtual to IRL and just down the block.
NORMA is a tart, unhinged flail into widowhood, the parasocial, and some of the more careworn corners of the internet.
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