The Sleepers by Matthew Gasda

Description

Four New Yorkers paths collide in the days ahead of the2016 election. Dan teaches Marxism while secretly courting a student. His girlfriend Mariko, an actress, finds refuge in her dying mentors bed.

When her sister, Akari, arrives from LAin flight from her own dead-end romanceshe becomes the unwitting witness to their mutual destruction . . .

In crystalline prose, Gasda maps the territory between who we pretend to be and who we areand how far we are willing to go when we think the internet isnt looking.

The Sleepers, a ruthless portrait of educated Millennials who know better but act worse, throws a jagged, electric light on how desire upends our carefully curated social personas.