The Every: A novel

Product Description
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world’s largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet’s dominant ecommerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous—and, oddly enough, most beloved—monopoly ever known: the Every.\nDelaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the Every. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Makazian, they look for the Every's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free?\nStudded with unforgettable characters, outrageous outfits, and lacerating set-pieces, this companion to
The Circle blends absurdity and terror, satire and suspense, while keeping the reader in apprehensive excitement about the fate of the company—and the human animal.
Review
“Once a decade a book like
The Every advances the frontier of literary excellence: a book that reflects our culture. Predicts our future. Worm-holes into our subconscious. Delivers artful and complex characters, metaphor, ideas, narrative. Provides percussive movements of levity, gravity, grace, suspense, hilarity.”
—Kerri Arsenault, The Boston Globe\n“(A) great-grandchild of Zamyatin’s
We, but now the 'perfect society' is Silicon Valley. Be careful what you wish for!”
—Margaret Atwood, via Twitter
“Eggers is a wonderful storyteller with an alert and defiant vision. His down-home decency means he pulls short of articulating a thought that recurred for me throughout reading
The Every: threatened with spiritual extinction through conformism, sanitization, shame, inanity and surveillance, it might yet be our evil, our perversity, our psychopathology, our hate that prove the saving of us.”
—Rob Doyle, The Guardian
“One has to admire Eggers’ belief in the power of fiction to make a difference, and his determination to use his publishing company to make a difference while remaining modestly pragmatic by necessity.
The Every is smart, funny and very sharply pointed. If it doesn’t hit on every aspect of the diffused totalitarianism of the tech companies and the way smartphones, cameras and computers have negatively impacted humanity, it sure hits on many of them.”
—Eric Ackland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“[This is a] remarkable piece of satire, riven as it is with horribly plausible ideas and horribly good jokes. It’s one thing to sound a warning about how we are on a slippery slope to a kind of consumerist fascism where we exchange liberty for convenience. What Eggers does so well is make
The Every alluring as well as alarming. . . . Eight years after
The Circle was published, there is all too little that rings false about its predictions about social media. If the same is true of
The Every, we are in even more trouble than we thought we were.”
―The Times“A darkly hilarious narrative that doesn’t just hit close to home. It burns the home down and then coldly assassinates all insurance adjusters who arrive on the scene to offer redemption.”
—Eric Mack, CNET“Prescient, sardonic and more than a little frightening.”
—Paul Wilner, San Francisco Examiner
“Eggers has long established his almost supernatural storytelling skills, and this new book is positively mesmerizing and wholly original.”
—BookPage (starred review)“A thought-provoking and wickedly dark satire.”
—Brad Stone, Bloomberg“A prescient—and hilarious—meditation on the rise of tech giants and how our blind trust in them could ultimately be our demise.”
—Harper’s Bazaar“What a perfect summation of our growing fears about Big Tech . . . cleverly speculating on the dystopia we’d face if these firms joined forces.”
—Alison Beard, Harvard Business Review
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