Quotients, Tracy ONeill
Quotients, Tracy ONeill
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Quotients

Author: Tracy O'Neill

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Unabridged: 8 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/12/2020

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

Two people search for connection in a world of fractured identities and aliases, global finance, big data, intelligence bureaucracies, algorithmic logic, and terror.

Jeremy Jordan and Alexandra Chen hope to make a quiet home together but struggle to find a space safe from their personal secrets. For Jeremy, this means leaving behind his former life as an intelligence operative during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. For Alexandra, a high-powered job in image management for whole countries cannot prepare her for her missing brother's sudden reappearance.

In a culture of limitless surveillance, Jeremy and Alexandra will go to great lengths to protect what is closest to them and answer the question of whether their love will be returned. Spanning decades and continents, their saga brings them into contact with a down-and-out online journalist, shadowy security professionals, and jockeying technology experts, each of whom has a different understanding of whether information really protects us, and how we might build a world worth trusting in our paranoid age.

About Tracy O'Neill

Tracy O'Neill is the author of The Hopeful, one of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2015, and Quotients. In 2015, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan Prize, and was a Narrative Under 30 finalist. In 2012, she was awarded the Center for Fiction's Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Rolling Stone, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, LitHub, BOMB, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Literarian, New World Writing, Narrative, Scoundrel Time, Guernica, Bookforum, Electric Literature, Grantland, Vice, the Guardian, VQR, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her column Body Language appeared in Catapult. She attended the MFA program at the City College of New York and the PhD program in communications at Columbia University. She has taught at the Hunter College MFA Program, Columbia University, the City College of New York, and the Gonzaga University MA program. She is the former editor-in-chief of the literary journal Epiphany.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Loring

It's important at the outset to specify that O'Neill writes in a distilled, condensed prose-poetry style that at times is almost telegraphic. That's ideal for the reader (like me) who loves a puzzle-box, but might be maddening to those who prefer a novel of paranoid suspense to be told in a linear f......more

Goodreads review by Jo

3.5 Stars. Quotients is a cup brimming over in ambition. The scope, scale and depth of subject matter, along with O’Neill’s approach to exploring them, is wantonly challenging. In literary prose filled with doublespeak, whether spycraft or verbal jousting, seemingly disparate character perspectives a......more

Goodreads review by Anne

Big Data and spies Tracy O’Neill is an author and holds a PhD in communication from Columbia University. She teaches and was editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Epiphany. Her short stories appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian and Rolling Stone, among others. She received several prizes for......more