Landscape With Invisible Hand by M. T. Anderson
When quietly superior aliens turn Earth into a global attraction, a suburban family and especially a teenage boy navigate the surreal new economy in which humans are paid to be cute, tragic, and entertaining for extraterrestrial viewers; neighborhoods become tourist sites, intimate relationships are commodified, and ordinary survival is entangled with performing for cash. Told from the voice of a wry, observant adolescent, the story satirizes late capitalism and social media culture as it follows the strains on love, identity, and dignity under an exploitative, profit-driven occupation that reshapes everyday life.
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- 2017
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