Alex McElroy: The Atmospherians
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A “dazzling” (Bryan Washington, author of Memorial) and brilliantly satirical debut novel about two best friends—a disgraced influencer and a struggling actor—who form The Atmosphere, a cult designed to reform problematic men.
Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, and a creator of a high profile wellness brand for women. But a confrontation with an abusive troll has taken a horrifying turn, and now she’s at rock bottom: canceled and doxxed online. Sasha’s childhood friend Dyson hatches a plan to restore her reputation by becoming the face of The Atmosphere, a rehabilitation community designed to rid men of their toxic masculinity and heal them physically, emotionally, and socially. But what horrors await Sasha as the resident female leader of a crew of washed up, desperate men?
Explosive and wickedly funny, The Atmospherians peers straight into the dark heart of wellness and woke-ness, self-mythology and self-awareness, by asking what happens when we become addicted to the performance of ourselves.
“Gutsy, hilarious, and fully saturated with the absurd spirit of our times, The Atmospherians is a novel about the tangle of capitalism, narcissism, and masculinity that have defined our cultural moment. McElroy is a master excavator of the murky innards that drive us, a satirist with an eye for the tender parts that make us tick.” – Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
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