num_pages: 323
description: Woke Up Lonely is an original and deeply funny novel that explores our very human impulse to seek and repel intimacy with the people who matter to us most.Thurlow Dan is the founder of the Helix a cult that promises to cure loneliness in the twenty-first century. With its communes and speed-dating mixers and confession sessions the Helix has become a national phenomenon - and attracted the attention of governments worldwide. But Thurlow camped out in his Cincinnati headquarters is lonely - for his ex-wife Esme and their daughter whom he hasn't seen in ten years. Esme for her part is a covert agent who has spent her life spying on Thurlow mostly to protect him from the law. Now with her superiors demanding results she recruits four misfits to botch a reconnaissance mission in Cincinnati. But when Thurlow takes them hostage he ignites a siege of the Helix House that will change all their lives forever. With fiery exuberant prose Fiona Maazel takes us on a wild ride through North Korea's guarded interior and a city of vice beneath Cincinnati a ride that twists and turns as it delves into an unsettled off-kilter America. Woke Up Lonely is an original and deeply funny novel that explores our very human impulse to seek and repel intimacy with the people who matter to us most.
language: English
title: Woke Up Lonely
publisher: Graywolf Press