The Cloud Intern - - ☁︎ - - David Greenwood
“How can this wildly inventive and brilliantly astute novel be a debut? David Greenwood writes like the mad love child of Donald Barthelme and Clarice Lispector.”
— Jenny Offill, author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation
“In The Cloud Intern, David Greenwood posits a dark potential future that offers us the opportunity to reflect on our current moment. An evocation of surveillance and start-up culture run amok, this book is a clear-eyed look at the forces destined to shape our planet. Absurd, subversive, and piercingly insightful, The Cloud Intern oscillates between nihilism and idealism, between manifesto and joke. I love this courageous debut.“
— Helen Phillips, author of Hum
“The Cloud Intern is a wild ride that balances the awe and loneliness of a not-so-brave new world… This wise, fun, expertly built debut introduces a much-needed voice in a world that desperately needs wonder.”
— Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Beautyland
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While today’s woes — social, environmental, dietary — roil the world below, Chris Curtis, lesser cofounder of tech giant eddy, spends his days afloat, cloud watching and talking to an emulation of his not actually dead father on the megablimp serving as eddy’s corporate campus. As it approaches a last-gasp summit of world powers, Chris is forced from the swimming pool into the fearsome shoes of his revered, and actually dead, cofounder. At least his new intern seems to appreciate the sunrises, so maddeningly ignored by his colleagues, and also doesn’t seem to be of the entitled intern class, even if it becomes hard to ignore that her motives aboard are less peaceable than resume building. Her name is Zoraida, and her closest friend is an emulation of her former self. Together, they become embroiled in a mass protest movement, revealing that underneath Zoraida’s desire to change the world and Chris’s desire to withdraw from it lies the collective loneliness of a society in which the deepest human connection has become a commodity, and deepest human weirdness may be our best hope.
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The Cloud Intern will be released on March 6, 2025 and all pre orders will ship about one week prior to that date.
“How can this wildly inventive and brilliantly astute novel be a debut? David Greenwood writes like the mad love child of Donald Barthelme and Clarice Lispector.”
— Jenny Offill, author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation
“In The Cloud Intern, David Greenwood posits a dark potential future that offers us the opportunity to reflect on our current moment. An evocation of surveillance and start-up culture run amok, this book is a clear-eyed look at the forces destined to shape our planet. Absurd, subversive, and piercingly insightful, The Cloud Intern oscillates between nihilism and idealism, between manifesto and joke. I love this courageous debut.“
— Helen Phillips, author of Hum
“The Cloud Intern is a wild ride that balances the awe and loneliness of a not-so-brave new world… This wise, fun, expertly built debut introduces a much-needed voice in a world that desperately needs wonder.”
— Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Beautyland
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While today’s woes — social, environmental, dietary — roil the world below, Chris Curtis, lesser cofounder of tech giant eddy, spends his days afloat, cloud watching and talking to an emulation of his not actually dead father on the megablimp serving as eddy’s corporate campus. As it approaches a last-gasp summit of world powers, Chris is forced from the swimming pool into the fearsome shoes of his revered, and actually dead, cofounder. At least his new intern seems to appreciate the sunrises, so maddeningly ignored by his colleagues, and also doesn’t seem to be of the entitled intern class, even if it becomes hard to ignore that her motives aboard are less peaceable than resume building. Her name is Zoraida, and her closest friend is an emulation of her former self. Together, they become embroiled in a mass protest movement, revealing that underneath Zoraida’s desire to change the world and Chris’s desire to withdraw from it lies the collective loneliness of a society in which the deepest human connection has become a commodity, and deepest human weirdness may be our best hope.
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The Cloud Intern will be released on March 6, 2025 and all pre orders will ship about one week prior to that date.
“How can this wildly inventive and brilliantly astute novel be a debut? David Greenwood writes like the mad love child of Donald Barthelme and Clarice Lispector.”
— Jenny Offill, author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation
“In The Cloud Intern, David Greenwood posits a dark potential future that offers us the opportunity to reflect on our current moment. An evocation of surveillance and start-up culture run amok, this book is a clear-eyed look at the forces destined to shape our planet. Absurd, subversive, and piercingly insightful, The Cloud Intern oscillates between nihilism and idealism, between manifesto and joke. I love this courageous debut.“
— Helen Phillips, author of Hum
“The Cloud Intern is a wild ride that balances the awe and loneliness of a not-so-brave new world… This wise, fun, expertly built debut introduces a much-needed voice in a world that desperately needs wonder.”
— Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Beautyland
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While today’s woes — social, environmental, dietary — roil the world below, Chris Curtis, lesser cofounder of tech giant eddy, spends his days afloat, cloud watching and talking to an emulation of his not actually dead father on the megablimp serving as eddy’s corporate campus. As it approaches a last-gasp summit of world powers, Chris is forced from the swimming pool into the fearsome shoes of his revered, and actually dead, cofounder. At least his new intern seems to appreciate the sunrises, so maddeningly ignored by his colleagues, and also doesn’t seem to be of the entitled intern class, even if it becomes hard to ignore that her motives aboard are less peaceable than resume building. Her name is Zoraida, and her closest friend is an emulation of her former self. Together, they become embroiled in a mass protest movement, revealing that underneath Zoraida’s desire to change the world and Chris’s desire to withdraw from it lies the collective loneliness of a society in which the deepest human connection has become a commodity, and deepest human weirdness may be our best hope.
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The Cloud Intern will be released on March 6, 2025 and all pre orders will ship about one week prior to that date.