<p><b>Shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection 2021</b><br><b><br>‘Wickedly, exquisitely hilarious’ – Alexandra Kleeman</b><br><b><br>‘Open-source desire, self-replicating fantasy’ – Tom McCarthy</b><br><b><br>‘A brilliant and brilliantly strange and strangely funny and menacing debut!’ – Sam Lipsyte</b><br><br>In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief, rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves.<br><br>An architect draws questionable inspiration from her daughter’s birth defect. A content moderator for ‘the world’s biggest search engine’, who spends her days culling videos of beheadings and suicides, turns from stalking her rapist online to
