“UnWorld is a richly layered, deeply intimate novel that holds a mirror to the depths of our own loneliness and offers a meditation on how to continually love ourselves through a cascade of grief that changes but doesn’t end.”
—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This Year
“Gripping, tender, haunting, and so gorgeously written, UnWorld is a staggeringly beautiful debut novel. With nuance and subtlety, with grace and deep feeling, Jayson Greene writes about the most ancient of human stories of love and grief, alongside the pressing, hypermodern concerns of the digital age, like artificial intelligence. On an idea level, on an emotional level, and on a sentence level, I was entranced.”
—Suleika Jaouad, author of Between Two Kingdoms
“UnWorld is a gorgeous, fascinating exploration of the tethers of love and grief. Jayson Greene invests artificial intelligence with a juicy, pulsating heart. There were sentences that made me shake my head in awe."
—Samantha Irby, author of Quietly Hostile
“In UnWorld, Jayson Greene maps the shifting landscapes of the mind, where consciousness splinters and intertwines, revealing both the fragility and vastness of being. In a world where fractured selves whisper and artificial intelligence looms, his captivating storytelling is a mirror—revealing and illuminating the deepest nuance of this human experience. This mesmerizing novel is more than a story—it’s a meditation on what it means to be human, asking questions that echo long after the last page."
—Alua Arthur, author of Briefly Perfectly Human
"Haunting and deeply introspective. . . . Greene crafts a stunning narrative that is as emotionally resonant as it is thought-provoking, weaving together mystery and philosophical speculation with graceful, evocative prose. The result is a mesmerizing meditation on loss, technology, and the enduring nature of human connection."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A mesmerizing novel in which boundaries between human and digital are as blurred as those between reality and imagination."
—Kirkus
