Suspended

Suspended is a stunning speculative debut. A vividly imagined exploration of grief, perceived reality, and the longing for immortality-perfect for fans of Emily St. John Mandel, Ted Chiang, and Kazuo Ishiguro.

Painter and single mother Fila Flostone is gunned down in a grocery store shooting, leaving her young son behind. Fifty years later, she wakes with a gasp-revived through a cryogenics program she barely remembers enrolling in.

Reanimated at Triskelen, a tech-driven, water-worshipping New Age sect, Fila is told nothing about her son's fate. The facility's leaders insist she isn't emotionally stable enough to handle the truth-and may never be. Refusing to accept their judgment, Fila uses her artist's eye for detail to orchestrate a daring escape.

On the outside, survival is brutal for a fugitive “Reheat.” Climate collapse and runaway technology have transformed the American she knew into a surreal, fractured landscape. Hunted and disoriented, Fila's only ally is the one thing she doesn't trust: an “emotional prosthesis” issued by Triskelen-an AI rendering of her son.

As she journeys toward a mysterious artificial island off California's ravaged coast-where her real son may be living in seclusion-Fila realizes that awaits her at the journey's end is not just reunion, but an impossible reckoning between love and truth.