Duplex: A Novel

Duplex: A Novel

<p>* A <i>New York Times Book Review </i>Notable Book of the Year * A <i>San Francisco Chronicle,</i> <i>Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, </i>New Hampshire Public Radio, <i>Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy, </i>and <i>Slaughterhouse 90210 </i>Best Book of the Year *</p><p>* A <i>New York Times Book Review </i>Editors' Choice * One of <i>The Millions's </i>Most Anticipated Books of 2013 *<br />Mary and Eddie are meant for each other—but love is no guarantee, not in these suburbs. Like all children, they exist in an eternal present; time is imminent, and the adults of the street live in their assorted houses like numbers on a clock. Meanwhile, ominous rumors circulate, and the increasing agitation of the neighbors points to a future in which all will be lost. Soon a sorcerer's car will speed down Mary's street, and as past and future fold into each other, the resonant parenthesis of her girlhood will close forever. Beyond is adulthood, a world of robots and sorcerers, slaves and masters, bodies without souls. In <i>Duplex, </i>Kathryn Davis, whom the <i>Chicago Tribune</i> has called "one of the most inventive novelists at work today," has created a coming-of-age story like no other. Once you enter the duplex—that magical hinge between past and future, human and robot, space and time—there's no telling where you might come out.</p>