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The Appetite Factory

By: Jon Gingerich
Narrated by: Adam Barr
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As head of the crisis management team at a Madison Avenue PR firm, Leonard Lundell spends his days counseling executives whose reputations have been ruined by scandal. But Leonard has been managing a strange and debilitating crisis of his own that’s held him captive his entire adult life: Leonard likes to eat soap, pencils, paint chips—anything with no nutritional value.

For years, he’s kept his compulsion hidden behind a professional veneer. But when he signs an important client, an antisocial file clerk unwittingly discovers Leonard’s secret and blackmails him into accommodating her own bizarre culinary indulgences.

A picaresque set against the backdrop of Madison Avenue’s marketing machine in the months leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, The Appetite Factory examines the earliest days of our post-truth era, where a scandal-obsessed news cycle and social media’s rise as an information platform have given birth to a culture addicted to recreational outrage and hell-bent on finding the next public figure to disgrace to keep ourselves entertained.

©2022 Jon Gingerich (P)2023 Dreamscape Media
Absurdist Dystopian Genre Fiction Science Fiction
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I almost quit listening after the first 40 minutes but stayed because the writing is excellent. Overtime I realize that it is a fabulous and timely social commentary. This book is also refreshing and excellently narrated.

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The Appetite Factory is a return the “Great American Novel” for a generation that has been sold hopes and dreams since infancy, only to arrive into adulthood being offered the banal, corporate capitalist dreams of a society hollow of purpose.

A modern masterpiece

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Stunning debut novel that is a modern must-read. This book will leave you wanting more from Jon. Excellent.

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