![]() The novel is a wild ride through a dark alternate history that resonates with the current political landscape. ![]() ![]() He does so as he tries to figure out what it means to live in the post 9/11 surveillance state, where political agendas impact and parallel personal ones. The tattoo is permanent and delivered in all caps with revelations like: "ABANDONS WHAT MATTERS MOST," "MUST MAKE DIFFERENT USE OF HANDS," and on the arm of protagonist Venter Lowood, "DEPENDENT ON THE OPINION OF OTHERS." As the machine and its devotees emerge from the shadows of its cult-like early years into national prominence, Venter struggles to prove that his true fate isn't the one inscribed on his skin. In a cluttered Upper East Side apartment, Adam Lyons is the steward of a machine that can tattoo an epiphany on the forearm of willing participants. With his latest novel, The Epiphany Machine, Gerrard has expanded both his scope and his ambition. David Burr Gerrard's 2014 debut novel, Short Century, was a propulsive, deranged, and hilarious manifesto portraying a debased neo-conservative in the hours before his death. ![]()
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