Kate Elliott, New York Times bestselling author

It's also funny, relatable, supremely clever, and deeply political. “ The City Inside is one of the most horrifyingly plausible near futures I have ever read.

Ultimately, resistance will not-cannot-take the same shape for these two very different people. When a bigger picture begins to unfold, they must each decide how to do the right thing in a world where simply maintaining the status quo feels like an accomplishment. When his father’s death pulls him back into his family’s orbit, an impulsive job offer from Joey becomes his only escape from the life he never wanted.īut as Joey and Rudra become enmeshed in multiple conspiracies, their lives start to spin out of control-complicated by dysfunctional relationships, corporate loyalty, and the never-ending pressures of surveillance capitalism. Rudra is a recluse estranged from his wealthy and powerful family, now living in an impoverished immigrant neighborhood. Joey’s job gives her considerable culture power, but she’s too caught up in day-to-day crisis handling to see this, or to figure out what she wants from her life. Her job is to supervise the multimedia multi-reality livestreams of Indi, one of South Asia’s fastest rising online celebrities-who also happens to be her college ex. Joey is a Reality Controller in near-future Delhi. They'd known the end times were coming but hadn’t known they’d be multiple choice.

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