The Repeat Room -- Jesse Ball

<b>Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America's most brilliant and distinctive writers</b> <p/>In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant's lived experience, to see as if through their eyes. <p/>The case to which Abel is assigned is revealed in the novel's shocking second act. We receive a record of a boy's broken and constrained life, a tale that reveals an illicit and passionate psycho-sexual relationship, its end as tragic as the circumstances of its conception. <p/>Artful in its suspense, and sharp in its evocation of a byzantine and cruel bureaucracy, <i>The Repeat Room</i> is an exciting and pointed critique of the nature of knowledge and judgment, and a vivid framing of Ball's absurd and nihilistic philosophy of love.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Jesse Ball<br><b>Publisher:</b> Catapult<br><b>Published:</b> 09/24/2024<br><b>Pages:</b> 256<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Hardcover<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781646221400<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Publishers Weekly</i> 06/03/2024<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>JESSE BALL</b> is an absurdist whose prize-winning work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.</p>