The Sleepers

A Contemporary Tragedy in a Classic Style

Four New Yorkers’ paths collide in the days ahead of the 2016 election. Dan teaches Marxism while secretly courting a student. His girlfriend Mariko, an actress, finds refuge in her dying mentor’s bed. When her sister, Akari, arrives from LA–in flight from her own dead-end romance–she becomes the unwitting witness to their mutual destruction . . .

In crystalline prose, Gasda maps the territory between who we pretend to be and who we are–and how far we are willing to go when we think the internet isn’t looking. The Sleepers, a ruthless portrait of educated Millennials who know better but act worse, throws a jagged, electric light on how desire upends our carefully curated social personas.

Author: Matthew Gasda
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 05/06/2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781648211256
Language: English