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Jungle House
Julianne Pachico
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A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'Stylish, beautiful and strange' Jessie Greengrass As featured on BBC Open Book: 'poses questions about whether we can love AI and whether AI could love us ... I couldn't help but develop a soft spot for Mother' -- Johny Pitts Lena has always lived in the jungle with Mother. There they look after a holiday home in surroundings that burst with colour and crawl with danger. Lena's only other friend is Isabella, who once visited regularly with her wealthy parents and security drone, Anton. But Isabella and her ... Read morefamily haven't been seen in years. Mother is not like other mothers. She gets angry when Lena draws her with a face. When Lena challenges her to portray herself, she paints a tiny yellow dot surrounded by swirling black. She is a bastion of light, she says, against an army of darkness. Outside, rebels are fighting to take over the country. Mother is determined nothing will change inside the security fence, nothing to threaten her bond with Lena, or endanger the family. But there are secrets that need to emerge. How did Lena end up here? And what has happened to the family who no longer visit? What has Mother been planning, and what is gathering around them to change their lives forever? Show Less
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About Julianne Pachico
Julianne Pachico was born in Cambridge and grew up in Cali, Colombia. Her short stories have been published in New Yorker, Granta and the White Review, and she teaches creative writing at UEA. Her other books include The Lucky Ones (2017) and The Anthill (2021).
Reviews for Jungle House
Insightful and very alive ... Pachico's alternative universe is a world of its own here, animated beyond what is possible in most fiction now
Guardian
An affecting AI mystery
i weekend
A bewildering and compelling novel that explores the tensions between town and country, danger and safety, rich and poor, and above all the human and ... Read morethe non-human... like Lord of the Flies fed through an episode of Black Mirror
Literary Review
Skilfully plotted
Telegraph
'Dazling and horrifying - this is Louise Bourgeois' Maman in a novel for the age of AI. Spectacular punchy prose and big thinking on the emotions of machines. We need writers like Pachico to help us think into the future
Anna Metcalfe, author of Chrysalis Compelling, atmospheric and sultry
Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum Road The robots are here, and they're touchy and insecure. At least, that's so in Julianne Pachico's brilliant AI mystery, Jungle House. With its remote setting, survival theme, and exploration of the possibilities and limitations of technology, it's a harmonious counterpoint to Naomi Alderman's apocalypse thriller, The Future
Madeleine Feeny
the Bookseller, Editor's Pick
Jungle House is excellent at suspense, constantly weaving terror through beguiling descriptions of the tropical landscape, and delivering well-earned plot twists throughout ... A fresh, darkly witty reminder that technology and nature still have some kinks to work out
Strong Words Magazine
One of the most talked-about releases this month and it's easy to see why ... a highly imaginative concept novel for our AI age
The Gloss, Irish Times
Jungle House is extraordinary, a charming and ominous and utterly riveting story that reads partly like a fable, and partly like a premonition of our future
Phil Klay, author of Redeployment Stylish, beautiful and strange, Jungle House looks with clear eyes at the complicated nature of embodiment, at our relationships both to ourselves and to others, and the delicate balance of love
Jessie Greengrass, author of The High House As enchanting as a fairy tale, and equally sinister, Jungle House takes us to the primordial forest and a future where AI manages the every need of a wealthy elite. Pachico's captivating novel is both a provocative conjuring of a future that's almost upon us, and a moving exploration of the mother-daughter bond
Victoria Gosling, author of Bliss and Blunder Constantly seems to pose questions about whether we can love AI and whether AI could love us ... I couldn't help but develop a soft spot for Mother
Johny Pitts, author of Afropean Julianne Pachico's smart plotting means you're never quite certain what's going to happen next but you're left rooting for Mother and Lena, 2023's unlikeliest literary duo. Intriguing and beautifully written, Jungle House is totally recommended
the Crack
Tense, poignant and atmospheric
the Bookseller, Editor's Pick
Intense and insightful ... a superb imagining on a topical subject matter - one which will leave you questioning developments about the impact of artificial intelligence, and its future
Buzz Magazine
This AI mystery is one to watch ... Gripping
Sunday Post
Well written with strong characters ... if The Jungle Book was about an abandoned baby girl who was looked after by two robots and an all-seeing, all-hearing and all-knowing "Mother", instead of a lovable black bear and a grumpy panther
Birmingham Mail
Thought-provoking and hauntingly atmospheric, Pachico's second novel is a gripping account of unravelling domestic dystopia and a timely reflection on what it means to be human in a world increasingly run by machines
Mail on Sunday
There's an element of Hal 9000 transported to terra firma in Pachico's latest ... a smart novel that mines fearmongering about the dangers of AI for bleak satire
Irish Times
Praise for Julianne Pachico
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A millennial's view of the complexities of Colombia, full of existential angst and funny details ... Go to Pachico's Colombia
The New York Times
Superb
Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble
Pachico is a gripping writer
The Times
Thrilling ... remarkably inventive
Atlantic
Pachico lays bare the trauma of life in post-peace Columbia
Ingrid Persaud, author of Love after Love
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