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    The New World: A Novel

    Written by Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz

    Narrated by David Bendena and Angie Kane

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    About this audiobook

    Jorie has just received some terrible news. A phone full of missed calls and sympathetic text messages seems to indicate that her husband, Jim, a chaplain at the hospital where she works as a surgeon, is dead. Only, not quite—rather, his head has been removed from his body and cryogenically frozen. Jim awakes to find himself in an altogether unique situation, to say the least: his body gone but his consciousness alive, his only companion a mysterious disembodied voice.

    In this surreal and unexpectedly moving work, Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz spin a tale of loss and adjustment, death and reawakening. Simultaneously fabulist and achingly human, The New World finds Jorie grieving the husband she knew while Jim wrestles with the meaning of life after death. The New World investigates the meaning of love and loss in the digital era.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateMar 4, 2019
    ISBN9781974932023
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    The New World: A Novel
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    Chris Adrian

    CHRIS ADRIAN is the author of Gob’s Grief, The Children’s Hospital and A Better Angel, which was selected as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review. Adrian, a fellow in pediatric hematology and oncology at the University of California and a Ph.D. student at Harvard Divinity School, was also selected as one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” to watch.

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    • 3/5
      This starts with a great sci-fi concept and alternating chapters between characters, but the structure seems to fall apart the last quarter of the book. The backstory of the last quarter should have been woven into the first three quarters.
    • 3/5
      When Jane's husband, Jim, dies suddenly she barely has time to reach the hospital before she discovers that a cryogenics company has already taken his head. What follows is a back and forth between Jane and Jim's' experiences in the following weeks, as well as a look back at their relationship. The New World: A Novel by Chris Adrian and Eli Gottlieb is a very short novel about the nature of our connectedness with the people who share our lives. Upon arriving in his new world, Jim is informed that in order to move forward, he will need to forget all the relationships and memories that make him who he is. And Jane engages in a desperate and seemingly futile battle to retrieve her husband's head. This is an inventive novel, but less inventive than it might be, it's brevity requiring that none of the ideas presented be fully developed. Still, it was entertaining enough, even if the relationships that form the centre of the novel were somewhat shallowly drawn.
    • 3/5
      I think this is the weirdest book I have ever read and I honestly could have rated it anywhere between two stars and four. It's such a novel concept and there was a lot that I liked, but the second half is a mess.
    • 2/5
      I actually quite enjoyed 94% of this book, and was planning to give it a solid 4 stars. It's a little bit speculative fiction, and the imagined afterlife of a cryogenically frozen head was creative and detailed and entertaining. It's also a story of a marriage, one that's mostly strong and mostly sweet, but has its weak points and sour points that make you appreciate the rest. However, it felt very much like two different books to me: the first half a sort of Galaxy Quest meets Stepford Wives with an Erin Brockovich B-story. It was funny and different and I enjoyed it.
      Then at some point it became fairly standard chick lit, story of a marriage with its good points and its bad points. I didn't enjoy that part as much, though it wasn't awful (for me I think it suffered by comparison to Fates & Furies, which I just finished). I couldn't figure out a plot-driven reason for the change, so maybe I missed something important.

      But at 94% the authors lost their damn minds, and I nearly threw my Kindle across the room while shouting "Seriously?! Seriously?!". I had a tremendously negative reaction to the ending (if you can even call it that, because it's actually just 23 Kindle pages of repetitive nonsense) --so much so that it nearly ruined what came before. I honestly have a hard time believing that a publisher read the ending and permitted it to go to press.
    • 3/5
      Surreal, unsettling, puzzled yet curious are the words that came to mind when I finished this book.The blurb sounded like this was just my type of book as I enjoy reading stories with a sci-fi futuristic element to them.I will admit not knowing much cryogenics and what the current thoughts/projects are but was curious to see how it was handled in this book.I liked how it was alternating chapters/narrators of Jane in the present, and Jim in the future that told their stories to their situation and relationship.I was more engaged in the first half of the book and had already formed my opinions on Jane and Jim but then the storyline concentrated more on the relationship/marriage complexities which shaded by previous opinion regarding their relationship. I thought the transition between parts was not as smooth as it could be and felt jarring at times and I thought okay this is what it concentrating on now. By the end of the book the flaws/faults in the couple’s relationship are revealed and the introspection seems to have let the sci-fi vibe falter as well.Overall this was a quick pleasant read for me but I was left not sure who the intended audience should be for this book.