The Resisters - A Novel By Gish Jen - An absolute modern literary classic

[Iwasamwillbe]

As shilled by Ann Patchett, Stephen King, and Jean Kwok, the Resisters is a a masterpiece of modern literature that will truly shape the 2020s era of writing.

According to Penguin Random House:

ABOUT THE RESISTERS
“The Resisters is palpably loving, smart, funny, and desperately unsettling. The novel should be required reading for the country both as a cautionary tale and because it is a stone-cold masterpiece. This is Gish Jen’s moment. She has pitched a perfect game.” –Ann Patchett

The time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica. The land: half under water. The Internet: one part artificial intelligence, one part surveillance technology, and oddly human–even funny. The people: Divided. The angel-fair “Netted” have jobs, and literally occupy the high ground. The “Surplus” live on swampland if they’re lucky, on water if they’re not.

The story: To a Surplus couple–he once a professor, she still a lawyer–is born a Blasian girl with a golden arm. At two, Gwen is hurling her stuffed animals from the crib; by ten, she can hit whatever target she likes. Her teens find her happily playing in an underground baseball league.

When AutoAmerica rejoins the Olympics, though–with a special eye on beating ChinRussia–Gwen attracts interest. Soon she finds herself playing ball with the Netted even as her mother challenges the very foundations of this divided society.

A moving and important story of an America that seems ever more possible, The Resisters is also the story of one family struggling to maintain its humanity and normalcy in circumstances that threaten their every value–as well as their very existence.

Extraordinary and ordinary, charming and electrifying, this is Gish Jen at her most irresistible.

Could it be that we're laying witness to the next addition to the Western literary canon?

 

[A Useless Fish]

What the fuck is this incoherent shit?

Never heard of this bitch, but I am gonna guess she's a Pee Ooh Cee that can barely form an actual sentence, who also scoops up literary awards like they're participation trophies being handed out at the local special needs school.

 

[Marissa Moira]

If one of those values is gay marriage troonism, they were fucked from the start.

Oh wait this bitch just ripped off the movie Rookie of The Year and set it in Fallout. That's all she fucking did.

 

[inexplicable ethos]

What the fuck is this incoherent shit?

Never heard of this bitch, but I am gonna guess she's a Pee Ooh Cee that can barely form an actual sentence, who also scoops up literary awards like they're participation trophies being handed out at the local special needs school.

The author is a Slanteye-American from NYC who looks like a severe burn victim. She notably wrote a short story called "Who's Irish?" where she bitches allegorically about how her culture isn't accepted by white people. Also, this:

Her first novel, Typical American, was nominated for a National Books Critics' Circle Award. Her second novel, Mona in the Promised Land, features a Chinese-American adolescent who converts to Judaism. The Love Wife, her third novel, portrays an Asian American family with interracial parents and both biological and adopted children.

 

[Dom Cruise]

That sounds stupid as shit.

 

[Marissa Moira]

The author is a Slanteye-American from NYC who looks like a severe burn victim. She notably wrote a short story called "Who's Irish?" where she bitches allegorically about how her culture isn't accepted by white people. Also, this:

Those all sound like very bad concepts for interesting stories.

This is someone who fetishizes cultures, now fetishes can make it into media and not bog the piece of media down(look at Tarantino movies) but in this case the fetish is the main fucking focus and it won't let up. When someone shouts "YOU'RE RACIST" in one of these stories, it's like a money shot in a porn movie because that's the climax and purpose, To show the act and to jack off about it.

 

[crocodilian]

What the fuck is this incoherent shit?

 

[BingBong]

OP is a shill faggot!

 

[Justtocheck]

Thanks for the recommend! Will give it a try!

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

What the fuck is this incoherent shit?

In a world racked by climate change, some African-Asian mutt is competing in the Olympics against a supernation born of the merger of China and Russia. The America the mutt is born in has a two-tiered caste system, where the "higher class" have jobs and live on solid land, and the "lower class", who are considered superfluous in nature, generally don't have jobs (except when they do) and live in swamps and bodies of water.

The mutt's mother is also working as an activist against the current system of governance in this version of America.

 

[inexplicable ethos]

The America the mutt is born in has a two-tiered caste system, where the "higher class" have jobs and live on solid land, and the "lower class", who are considered superfluous in nature, generally don't have jobs (except when they do) and live in swamps and bodies of water.

This actually sounds based wtf, can we bring back social stratification based on genetic markers?

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

This actually sounds based wtf, can we bring back social stratification based on genetic markers?

I don't think they're based on genetic markers.

 

[The Shadow]

So this is basically everything the left told us would happen if Trump was elected, but actually never happened because we don't live in an AMC Original Series?

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

These "Resistance" writers are a dime a dozen. Why should I care about them?

 

[millais]

I can tell that the heavily stratified shithole Future America is supposed to constitute the dystopian future element of the novel, but to me, the 56% Amerimutt protag is the real dystopian future element.

 

[Comandante Marcos]

If the Surplus mutt was a genius hacker instead of a ball tosser this novel might have been pretty cool cyberpunk-in 1994.

 

[Liber Pater]

The story: To a Surplus couple–he once a professor, she still a lawyer–is born a Blasian girl with a golden arm.

This fucking sentence

Is Penguin no longer employing English-speakers to write their book descriptions? The sentence construction is unbelievably awkward.

 

[Marissa Moira]

This fucking sentence

Is Penguin no longer employing English-speakers to write their book descriptions? The sentence construction is unbelievably awkward.

Yeah they outsourced a bunch of pajeets

 

[Justtocheck]

This is bullshit. Future America will just be an opiod infested wasteland where everyone has credit card debt up to their noses and people will invite you to their homes to shoot ARs and some heroin. Just you wait 2 years Putin for your big break.

 

[mindlessobserver]

The publishing houses are getting their shit stomped by Amazon and even obscure internet publishing like Lulu and Golden Road. We are witnessing their death throws.