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This Moth Saw Brightness
Author: A. A. Vacharat
Narrator: Elena Rey, Austin Ku, Maggi-Meg Reed
Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: 05/27/2025
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Biracial & Multiracial, Social Themes
Synopsis
A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A weird and revelatory novel that vividly captures the dislocation of growing up BIPOC and neurodivergent in a country awash in both conspiracy theories and genuine conspiracies.
“This funny, insightful debut about mental illness, identity, and a person’s capacity to change packs a surprising emotional punch.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
’Wayne Le—known as “Invisible-D ’Wayne” at school—has been invited to participate in a seemingly ordinary, innocuous adolescent health study by a prestigious university. The study is easy: take a few pills, use an app for quizzes and writing prompts. And it has a few nice perks: cash, health insurance, a letter of commendation. But most important to ’Wayne is the opportunity to give his immigrant father something that’s been in short supply since ’Wayne’s mother left: an accomplishment to be proud of.
The study quickly proves to be anything but ordinary and innocuous, and ’Wayne, his best friend Kermit, and a fellow study participant named Jane (a girl who shall not be manic-pixied) find themselves sucked into an M. C. Escheresque maze of conspiracies that might be entirely in their heads or might truly be a sinister government plot.
“This funny, insightful debut about mental illness, identity, and a person’s capacity to change packs a surprising emotional punch.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
’Wayne Le—known as “Invisible-D ’Wayne” at school—has been invited to participate in a seemingly ordinary, innocuous adolescent health study by a prestigious university. The study is easy: take a few pills, use an app for quizzes and writing prompts. And it has a few nice perks: cash, health insurance, a letter of commendation. But most important to ’Wayne is the opportunity to give his immigrant father something that’s been in short supply since ’Wayne’s mother left: an accomplishment to be proud of.
The study quickly proves to be anything but ordinary and innocuous, and ’Wayne, his best friend Kermit, and a fellow study participant named Jane (a girl who shall not be manic-pixied) find themselves sucked into an M. C. Escheresque maze of conspiracies that might be entirely in their heads or might truly be a sinister government plot.
