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In Flux, three characters — Bo, Brandon and Blue — are tortured by questions of grief, trauma and racial identity as their lives spin out of control.
After 8-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, his white father, attempting to hold their lives together, begins to gradually retreat from the family.
Twenty-eight-year-old Brandon loses his job at a legacy magazine publisher and is offered a new position. Confused to find himself in an apartment he does not recognize, and an office he sometimes cannot remember leaving, he comes to suspect that something far more sinister is happening behind the walls.
Forty-eight-year-old Blue participates in a television exposé of Flux, a failed bioelectric tech startup whose fraudulent activity eventually claimed the lives of three people and nearly killed him. Blue, who can only speak with the aid of cybernetic implants, stalks his old manager while holding his estranged family at arm’s length.
Intertwined with the saga of a once-iconic ’80s detective show, Raider, whose star has fallen after decades of concealed abuse, the lives of Bo, Brandon and Blue intersect with each other, to the extent that it becomes clear that their lives are more interconnected and interdependent than the reader could have ever imagined.
Rapid Rating: High.
Profanity includes 76 uses of strong language, around 50 instances of moderate profanity, about 5 uses of mild language, and 15 instances of the name of Deity in vain. References to sex. Violence includes killings and blood.
