“ Participation is radically imagined and radically felt: a self-reflexive, intellectual, formally inventive novel that is also highly engaging and very funny. Participation is a mysterious and sexy dive into the place where lust, altruism, and friendship converge.” -Barbara Browning, author of The Gift Pronouns slip, and so do you, seduced in your turn by her direct address. “Anna Moschovakis’s narrator has been busy: boning up on the discourse of Love and Anti-Love performing affective labour in the food service, mediation, and information industries tugging gently at the nipple rings of a handsome capitalist eating shrooms exchanging cagey messages with a comrade whose gender remains tantalizingly suspended. And I was grateful for the experience.” -Jacob Wren, author of Rich and Poor I never knew where it would go next-which for me is the highest of praise-and I was never less than intellectually and emotionally delighted as I was pulled along for the ride. In the best cases, you feel like it read you first.’ And in this tale of two reading groups, the loyalties, confusions and interrelations of thought, love, and wondering how to live in such drastic times come into layer after layer of striking focus. “Anna Moschovakis writes: ‘In the best cases, when you read something, you feel like you’ve known it forever. I was continually surprised and endlessly delighted.“ -Aimee Wall, author of We, Jane Language is alive here and Moschovakis plays with its possibilities and pokes at its limitations. “ Participation is thoughtful, intelligent, funny, and the most radically inventive novel I’ve read in a long time. With incisive prose and surprising structural shifts, Participation forms an alluring vision of community, and a love story like no other. As the groups consider-or neglect-the syllabi, and connections between members deepen, a mentor in mediation disappears, a colleague known as “the capitalist” becomes a point of fixation, and “The News Reports” filter through in fragments. Participation offers a prescient look at remote communication in a time of rupture: anonymous participants exchange fantasies and ruminations, and relationships develop and unravel. In the latest novel from Anna Moschovakis, two reading groups, Love and Anti-Love, convene digitally amidst political upheaval and undefined environmental catastrophe. When environmental disaster strikes, binaries and certainties dissolve as members of two virtual reading groups reshape their lives, romances, and reality itself.
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