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Nothing to See by Adam, Pip is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Shortlisted for the 2021 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for FictionIt's 1994. Peggy & Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings & they ring their support person, Diane. They have just enough money for one Tom Yum between them, but mostly they eat carrot sandwiches. They volunteer at the Salvation Army shop, & sometimes they sleep with men for money. They live with Heidi & Dell, who are also like them.It's 2006. Peggy & Greta have two jobs: a job at a call centre, & a job as a moderator for a website. They're teaching themselves how to code. Heidi & Dell don't live together anymore, & Dell keeps getting into trouble. One day, Peggy & Greta turn around & there's only one of them.It's 2018. Margaret lives next door to Heidi & her family. She has a job writing code that analyses data for a political organisation, & she's good at it. Every day she checks an obsolete cellphone she found under her bed, waiting for messages. She struggles to stay sober. Then, one day, there are two of them again, both trying to figure out where they have come from.Nothing to See is a compelling, brilliantly original novel about life in the era of surveillance capitalism, when society prefers no

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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Adam, Pip
Publisher
Victoria University of Wellington Press
Published
2020
Language
EN
ISBN
9781776563319
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Women'S Fiction

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