(Ebook) My Name Is Iris: A Novel by Brando Skyhorse

(Ebook) My Name Is Iris: A Novel by Brando Skyhorse

Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award–winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with a riveting literary dystopian novel set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens—a powerful family saga for readers of Mohsin Hamid's Exit West & Rumaan Alam's Leave the World Behind.Iris Prince is starting over. After years of drifting apart, she & her husband are going through a surprisingly drama-free divorce. She's moved to a new house in a new neighborhood, & has plans for gardening, coffee clubs, & spending more time with her nine-year-old daughter Melanie. It feels like her life is finally exactly what she wants it to be.Then, one beautiful morning, she looks outside her kitchen window—and sees that a wall has appeared in her front yard overnight. Where did it come from? What does it mean? And why does it seem to keep growing?Meanwhile, a Silicon Valley startup has launched a high-tech wrist wearable called "the Band." Pitched as a convenient, eco-friendly tool to help track local utilities & replace driver's licenses & IDs, the Band is available only to those who can prove parental citizenship. Suddenly, Iris, a proud second-generation Mexican American, is now of "unverifiable origin," unable to prove who she is, or where she, & her undocumented loved ones, belong. Amid a climate of fear & hate-fueled violence, Iris must confront how far she'll go to protect what matters to her most.My Name Is Iris is an all-too-possible story about family, intolerance, & hope, offering a brilliant & timely look at one woman’s journey to discover who she can’t—& can—be.Brando Skyhorse’s debut novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park, won the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award & the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. His memoir, Take This Man, was named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014...