Meanwhile in Dopamine City

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINING AUTHOR OF VERNON GOD LITTLE'Pierre's high-risk prose explores and expands the cartoonish taboo-busting outer edges of literary possibility.' -- Independent***It's a big bad world out there in Dopamine City.All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe.But Shelby-Ann - his little girl the maddening apple of his eye - has other ideas: Shelby-Ann wants her first smartphone.So new realities are rocketing their way to 37 Palisade Row where everything will change every day and at mortal speed. Until Lonnie finds himself in a stitch: he'll have to join this new world or wither in it. Or can he mastermind a vanishing act?The story of a hapless father's love and loss and a speedball starburst satire Meanwhile in Dopamine City is a passionate freewheeling work from the winner of the Booker Prize: a riotous cry for the soul and the flesh and the heart in the cooling bathwater of our automatic times.