Wrong Way

Name: Wrong Way
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Joanne McNeil
ISBN: 9781666650525

Author: Joanne McNeil

Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya

Unabridged: 7 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 11/14/2023

Categories: Fiction, Women, Coming Of Age, Political

Synopsis

For years, Teresa has meandered from one job to the next, settling into long stretches of time, unable to move ahead in any field or career, the dreaded move from one gig to another starting to feel unbearable. When a recruiter connects her with a contract position at AllOver, it appears to check all her prerequisites for a “good” job. It’s a fintech corporation with progressive hiring policies and a social-justice–minded mission statement. Their new service for premium members? A functional fleet of driverless cars. The future of transportation. As her new-hire orientation reveals, the distance between AllOver’s claims and its actions is wide, but the lure of financial stability and a flexible schedule is enough to keep Teresa driving forward. Joanne McNeil, who often reports on how the human experience intersects with tech, brings all of her compassion and criticism about labor and technology to Wrong Way. In this thought-provoking, fresh, and humane novel, she captures the existential perils imposed by a nonstop, full-service gig economy, and exposes the toll of corporate calculations on the human spirit.

About Joanne McNeil

Joanne McNeil is the author of Lurking: How a Person Became a User. The inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation’s Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer, she has been a resident at Eyebeam, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. She lives in Boston.

About Jennifer Jill Araya

Jennifer Jill Araya is an Audie-Award-winning narrator. Also an Earphones Award winner, an American Library Association YALSA Amazing Audiobooks Award winner, a SOVAS Award finalist, and a three-time Independent Audiobook Award finalist, she has narrated nearly 300 audiobooks. She also narrates romance and erotica under the name Isabelle Ruther. When she’s not narrating, she can be found hiking, biking, running, or generally exploring her home city of Cincinnati with her husband Arturo.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christopher

Boston: the not-so-distant future. Teresa has had a long history of transitory employment, but finally it seems the (fictional) internet conglomerate AllOver has offered her a steady job with their “driverless” fleet of cars (or, as they call them, “CRs”). Of course, it’s not what it seems, and she......more

Goodreads review by Denise

This book won’t be for everyone but it really was the book for me. So often I read books by young MFA grads that glorify or objectify poverty in beautiful sentences and you can just tell they’ve not lived it. I think it helps that the author is a journalist who has intimate knowledge of these issues......more

Goodreads review by Sammi

I spent the entire book waiting for the meat of the story to begin until I realized I finished it. The book is basically just all the exposition, though not unenjoyable, with some pleasant scenes of gig work and rumination on technology. I liked this quote in the new yorker article about the book: “......more

Goodreads review by Sarah’s Shelves

The premise of this book was very intriguing and alluring, but the execution fell a bit flat for me. I feel like it never really accomplished the commentaries it was trying to make and the ending felt oddly unfinished. I honestly don’t know how to feel. It was written well, but at the end of the day…......more