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Set-Point

Fawn Parker

Set-Point is a novel about personal, sexual, and physical identity. A voice that is at once brutally honest and humorous follows Lucy Frank, a mid-20s aspiring screenwriter living in Montreal who begins work as a digital sex worker, selling data recorded on interactive erotic consoles. She keeps her work separate from
her artistic and personal life, until a user threatens to release her identity. Lucy struggles with body image, her mother’s illness, and her feelings about her new line of work, while trying to sell a series of scripts parodying Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle series. Segments of the novel take place inside of U:3D,
a massive multiplayer online world-building game
in which Lucy’s project is produced. Unfolding in Montreal youth culture, this debut explores intellectual parody, mental and physical illness, and the relationship between technology and sex.

Plume Winnipeg