A Little More Human, Fiona Maazel
A Little More Human, Fiona Maazel
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A Little More Human

Author: Fiona Maazel

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Unabridged: 12 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2017

Synopsis

Meet Phil Snyder: new father, nursing assistant at a cutting-edge biotech facility on Staten Island, and all-around decent guy. Trouble is, his life is falling apart. His wife has betrayed him, his job involves experimental surgeries with strange side effects, and his father is hiding early-onset dementia. Phil also has a special talent he doesn't want to publicize?he's a mind reader and moonlights as Brainstorm, a costumed superhero. But when Phil wakes up from a blackout drunk and is confronted with photos that seem to show him assaulting an unknown woman, even superpowers won't help him. Try as he might, Phil can’t remember that night, and so, haunted by the need to know, he mind-reads his way through the lab techs at work, adoring fans at Toy Polloi, and anyone else who gets in his way, in an attempt to determine whether he's capable of such violence. A Little More Human, rife with layers of paranoia and conspiracy, questions how well we really know ourselves, showcasing Fiona Maazel at her tragicomic, freewheeling best.

About Fiona Maazel

Fiona Maazel is the author of Last Last Chance, and Woke Up Lonely. She won the Bard Prize for Fiction, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, and elsewhere. She teaches at Brooklyn College, New York University, Columbia, and Princeton, and was appointed the Picador Guest Professor at the University of Leipzig, Germany, for the spring of 2012. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeff on November 06, 2016

[Disclosure: I got an ARC of A Little More Human from the publisher; based--I guess--on the fact that I gave positive reviews to Fiona Maazel's previous books. Well, as it turns out I'm going to give this book a positive review too because it's great and you should all be jealous that I got to read......more

Goodreads review by Judy on July 06, 2017

As my fellow readers know, I like to read all kinds of books in all kinds of genres. I especially like the younger female authors who are taking on the world-in-flux where we now live. Ever since I read her second novel, Woke Up Lonely, Fiona Maazel has been right up there near the top of my list. Th......more

Goodreads review by David on May 16, 2017

I've never been so conflicted on a book before. I'm halfway through this book and I'm not enjoying it. The urge to read this dwindled as the days went on. It sucked too because it's right up my alley. Superpowers, conspiracy and a mixture of science fiction. The writing and the idea for the story ar......more

Goodreads review by David on September 09, 2017

Phil Snyder’s wife has gone behind his back and had herself artificially inseminated. His father is losing his mind. On the weekends Phil works as a promotional costumed superhero called Brainstorm. And meanwhile, his ability to read minds and manipulate thoughts prove useless when he is accused of......more

Goodreads review by Amber on April 17, 2017

Seriously one of the best books I've read this year... funny, well-written, clever, speculative "futuristic" with a creative insight into the future of biometrics & where the line between tech meets medicine becomes blurred and twisted, and the best part... a page-turner - not unlike that of the bes......more

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