CHOSEN SPIRITS

She’d decided that night that she wouldn’t leave. That she would stay in India in Delhi and belong as hard as she could.Joey is a Reality Controller in charge of the livestream of a charismatic and problematic celebrity in smog-choked water-short ever-transforming Delhi - a city on the brink of revolution under the shadow of multiple realities and catastrophes - at the end of the 2020s.When Joey impulsively rescues a childhood friend Rudra from his new-elite family and the comfortable horrific life they have chosen for him she sets into motion a chain of events — a company takeover a sex scandal a series of betrayals — that disintegrates not just their public and private selves but the invisible walls that divide the city around them.To find the lives they need Joey and Rudra must reckon with people and forces beyond their understanding in a world where trust is impossible popularity is conformity and every wall has eyes.