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Blurb: “Bubblegum is set in an alternate present-day America in which the Internet does not exist and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology—a
"flesh-and-bone robot" called the Curio-has pervaded the cultural imagination and dominated the global economy since the 1980s.
Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing his memoir, Bubblegum. Through it we follow a singular man out of sync with a world he feels alien to but must find a way to live in. A world in which a robot might not be just a robot, an astronaut billionaire could be your only friend, inanimate objects may be suicidal, and a critical theorist can pen a bestseller. A world of mono-loguing bank tellers, essayist bodyguards, rusting swingsets, and fathers and sons.
In Bubblegum, Adam Levin has crafted a profoundly hilarious, resonant, and monumental narrative about longing, art, and the search for belonging in an incompatible world. This second novel—the author's first in a decade—is a rare masterwork of provocative social (and self-) awareness and intimate emotional power.”