Molly McGhee | Novelist and Professor (original) (raw)
“Disturbing and darkly funny, McGhee’s surrealist debut is sure to keep readers up at night.” —People
Jonathan Abernathy is a self-proclaimed loser—he’s behind on his debts, has no prospects, no friends, and no ambitions. But when a government loan forgiveness program offers him a literal dream job, he thinks he’s found his big break. If he can appear to be competent at his new job, entering the minds of middle-class workers while they sleep and removing the unsavory detritus of their waking lives from their unconscious, he might have a chance at a new life. As Abernathy finds his footing in this role, reality and morality begin to warp around him. Soon, the lines between life and work, love and hate, right and wrong, even sleep and consciousness, begin to blur.
“A deeply humane novel that perfectly marries the strangeness and terror of everything we can’t explain about ourselves, to ourselves — McGhee is a marvelous chronicler of the fantastic, the perverse, and the sublime.” —Kelly Link
“ An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut full of complication and surprise. It is also often very funny.” —Jeff VanderMeer
**“Molly McGhee reminds me of absolutely no one.” —Ben Marcus