Touched
Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and completely evil converge in a dystopian fantasy that could only be conceived by the inimitable Walter Mosley, one of the country's most beloved and acclaimed writers
Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure.
Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles-- against pure evil. Think Octavia Butler meets Jeff VanderMeer meets Jordan Peele.
Expansive and innovative, sexy and satirical, Touched brilliantly imagines the ways in which human life and technological innovation threaten existence itself.
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Praise for Touched and Walter Mosley:
"An expansivedystopian fantasy that is equally sexy and incisive." - Entertainment Weekly
"Like a Black Mirror episode set against the Hollywood Hills." - Kirkus
"Walter Mosley is best known as one of contemporary
literature's pre-eminent crime novelists, but he's actually four or five
different writers rolled into one... He's an altogether thornier, more
idiosyncratic writer than readers may know, an inveterate investigator and
chronicler of his own heart, mind and soul." --New York Times
The prolific Mosley delights in the
wonderfully bizarre... He unfurls into greater and frankly breathtaking
complexity."--New York Times on The Awkward Black Man
"[Near] the recent
work of Julian Barnes and Roddy Doyle."--Wall Street Journal on The
Awkward Black Man
"We see [Mosley] as
a chronicler of Black life in America."--Washington Post on The
Awkward Black Man
"Tinged with sardonic humor and acerbic observations, many
echoing the pained, bristling voices of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin."--New
Yorker on The Awkward Black Man
