Category: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Language: EnglishKeywords: Dystopia
Written by Charlee Dyroff
Read by Annalyse McCoy
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
Release date: 05-07-24
âAn inventive and perceptive story about human connection and being alive.â âEmily Austin, author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
âSharply etched and strangely propulsiveâ âLeslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams and Splinters
A warm hearted, beautifully written debut novel set in near future New York about a young woman who finds herself tangled in a secret Government project combating loneliness.
Leeâs future is setâa top student and professor-favorite, sheâs destined to land a job at a prestigious Big Five corporation. So when, upon graduating, sheâs assigned to an unknown company in the dead city of New York instead, her life is completely upended.
In this new role, Leeâs task is to gather enough research to train an AI how to be a friend. She begins online and by studying the social circle of her clueless, outgoing roommate Veronika. But when the company reveals itâs part of a classified government mission to solve lonelinessâan emotion erased from societyâs lexicon decades agoâLeeâs determination to prove herself kicks into overdrive, and she begins chasing bolder and more dangerous experiences to provide data for the AI.
How far will Lee go to teach the algorithm? As the mysterious affliction spreads, Lee must decide what sheâs willing to give up for success and, along the way, learn what it means to be a true friend.
Loneliness & Company is an enchanting, gorgeously written novel about finding meaning and connection in a world beset by isolation.
Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
Release date: 05-07-24
âAn inventive and perceptive story about human connection and being alive.â âEmily Austin, author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
âSharply etched and strangely propulsiveâ âLeslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams and Splinters
A warm hearted, beautifully written debut novel set in near future New York about a young woman who finds herself tangled in a secret Government project combating loneliness.
Leeâs future is setâa top student and professor-favorite, sheâs destined to land a job at a prestigious Big Five corporation. So when, upon graduating, sheâs assigned to an unknown company in the dead city of New York instead, her life is completely upended.
In this new role, Leeâs task is to gather enough research to train an AI how to be a friend. She begins online and by studying the social circle of her clueless, outgoing roommate Veronika. But when the company reveals itâs part of a classified government mission to solve lonelinessâan emotion erased from societyâs lexicon decades agoâLeeâs determination to prove herself kicks into overdrive, and she begins chasing bolder and more dangerous experiences to provide data for the AI.
How far will Lee go to teach the algorithm? As the mysterious affliction spreads, Lee must decide what sheâs willing to give up for success and, along the way, learn what it means to be a true friend.
Loneliness & Company is an enchanting, gorgeously written novel about finding meaning and connection in a world beset by isolation.