How I threw up the Red Pill

<p><strong>Ivan Mirov came to America to reinvent himself.</strong><br><strong>He didn't expect to become a witness to its unraveling.</strong></p><p>At twenty-one Ivan leaves Moscow chasing the American dream he saw online-freedom creativity and the chance to become someone new. Instead he finds himself working twelve-hour shifts in a freezing fish factory surrounded by burnout wage theft and a city addicted to distraction.</p><p>Inside this industrial purgatory Ivan meets a cast of equally disillusioned outsiders:<br>a conspiracy-addled tech dropout an economist studying inequality from the inside a cynical immigrant who's already surrendered-and Saffron a brilliant damaged anarchist who insists the system is collapsing.</p><p>What begins as curiosity becomes obsession when Ivan's footage of factory life accidentally goes viral turning him into a symbol of outrage he never meant to represent. Suddenly he is being watched praised attacked and recruited by people who don't care who he is-only what he can do for their movement.</p><p>As surveillance tightens and violence escalates Ivan must decide whether to join the revolution flee the country or reject the entire narrative others keep forcing onto him.</p><p><strong>Darkly funny unsettling and fiercely honest I Threw Up the Red Pill is a contemporary satire about the myths we chase the ideologies we swallow and what happens when the dream you're sold becomes the nightmare you can't wake up from.</strong></p>