
Victim
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Anthony Rey Perez
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By:
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Andrew Boryga
About this listen
MOST ANTICIPATED: WASHINGTON POST, TIME, & MORE • AN NPR, BBC, AND DEBUTIFUL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer of diversity initiatives and decides to cash in on the odd currency of identity.
"A crowning achievement."—New York Times Book Review • "You will burn through Victim and find your hands scalded when you are done…Pitch perfect."—Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming
Javier Perez is a hustler from a family of hustlers. He learns from an early age how to play the game to his own advantage, how his background—murdered drug dealer dad, single cash-strapped mom, best friend serving time for gang activity—can be a key to doors he didn’t even know existed. This kind of story, molded in the right way, is just what college admissions committees are looking for, and a full academic scholarship to a prestigious university brings Javi one step closer to his dream of becoming a famous writer.
As a college student, Javi embellishes his life story until there’s not even a kernel of truth left. The only real connection to his past is the occasional letter he trades with his childhood best friend, Gio, who doesn’t seem to care about Javi’s newfound awareness of white privilege or the school-to-prison pipeline. Soon after Javi graduates, a viral essay transforms him from a writer on the rise to a journalist at a legendary magazine where the editors applaud his “unique perspective.” But Gio more than anyone knows who Javi really is, and sees through his game. Once Gio’s released from prison and Javi offers to cut him in on the deal, will he play along with Javi’s charade, or will it all come crumbling down?
A satirical sendup of tear-jerking trauma plots with a tender portrait of friendship at its core, Victim asks what real diversity looks like and how far one man is willing to go to make his story hit the right notes.
©2024 Andrew Boryga (P)2024 Random House AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize • A New York Times Editor's Choice • An NPR, BBC, Debutiful, She Reads and Lit Hub Best Book of 2024 • A Washington Post, TIME, USA Today, Real Simple, Nylon, Lit Hub, She Reads, and Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of the Year
"[An] energetic and deeply satisfying debut novel...Boryga is having fun, and he’s inviting us to join in. But let’s be clear: Though Boryga is playing, he’s not playing around...His debut signals the arrival of a writer courageous enough to dive into the difficult head-on. A thrilling work."—Mateo Askaripour, New York Times Book Review
“Blazingly trenchant, unflinchingly Bronx, Boryga's the rare writer who knows sometimes it's in the unlearning where real education begins. Victim diddy-bops into your skull; smooth, cool, fun-loving and knowing full well a sense of humor always trumps one's sense of entitlement. Break night with this one—it isn't to be missed.”—Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout
“You will burn through Victim and find your hands scalded when you are done. It’s not just because of the tight, engaging prose and pitch perfect voice of our narrator, Javier—but because no one is innocent in this stinging satire that turns everything about meritocracy and success on its head. Boryga pulls no punches, and leaves you alternating rolling with laughter and cringing as a result.”—Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming
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These new, recent, and reformulated stories by Joyce Carol Oates showcase a wide range of crime fiction and psychological suspense. A young, insecure woman finds her relationship changing as she grows more and more dependent on a man who likes to take her on long walks beside a dangerously roaring creek. Another woman, nervous around men, not quite knowing how to act when paid a compliment, becomes flustered when a doctor suggests they go out for coffee, or possibly a drink.
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Brilliant writing; wretched narration!
- By howshermun on 11-16-24
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Caledonian Road
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- By: Andrew O'Hagan
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Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public—yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much. He’s never taken other people half as seriously as they take themselves, which is the first of his mistakes. The second is a new project: opportunistic and precisely calibrated to rake in a fortune.
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The best audiobook I have ever listened to
- By Samuel Barker on 07-31-24
By: Andrew O'Hagan
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Parasol Against the Axe
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- Narrated by: Dorje Swallow
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie. Little does she know she’s arrived in a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. A book Hero has brought with her seems to be warping her mind: the text changes depending on when it’s being listened to and who’s doing the listening, revealing startling new stories of fictional Praguers past and present.
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A surrealist chocolate box of delights
- By Roxanne Abeln-Taylor on 02-20-25
By: Helen Oyeyemi
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Bright I Burn
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- By: Molly Aitken
- Narrated by: Avena Mansergh-Wallace
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Alice, the daughter of a wealthy innkeeper in Kilkenny, grows up watching her mother wither under the constraints of family responsibilities—and she vows that she will never suffer the same fate. In time, she discovers she has a flair for making money, and takes her father's flourishing business to new heights. But as her riches and stature grow, so too do rumors about her private life. By the time she marries her fourth husband—the three earlier are dead—a storm of local gossip and resentment culminates in a life-threatening accusation.
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Amazing
- By cynthia s. on 02-27-25
By: Molly Aitken
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My Heavenly Favorite
- By: Lucas Rijneveld, Michele Hutchinson
- Narrated by: Allon Sylvain
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international sensation The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside, where he becomes enraptured by his “Favorite”—the farmer’s daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence and longs to have a boy’s body.
By: Lucas Rijneveld, and others
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Entitlement
- A Novel
- By: Rumaan Alam
- Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Brooke wants. She isn’t in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief?
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so disappointing
- By K. Wagner on 09-22-24
By: Rumaan Alam
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Choice
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- By: Neel Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand, Antonio Aakeel, Shaheen Khan
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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"How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes.
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Three Disparate Takes
- By David on 06-01-24
By: Neel Mukherjee
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Birding with Benefits
- By: Sarah T. Dubb
- Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw, Evan Sibley
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Newly divorced, almost-empty-nester Celeste is finally seeking adventure and putting herself first, cliches be damned. So when a friend asks Celeste to “partner” with his buddy John for an event, Celeste throws herself into the role of his temporary girlfriend. But quiet cinnamon roll John isn’t looking for love, just birds—he needs a partner for Tucson’s biggest bird-watching contest if he’s ever going to launch his own guiding business. By the time they untangle their crossed signals, they’ve become teammates…and thanks to his meddling friends, a fake couple.
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Too much sex
- By Nancy E on 06-22-24
By: Sarah T. Dubb
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Creation Lake
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- By: Rachel Kushner
- Narrated by: Rachel Kushner
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A thirty-four-year-old American woman—a secret agent—is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct.
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Author should not have been the reader
- By Raj A. on 09-11-24
By: Rachel Kushner
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Small Rain
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- By: Garth Greenwell
- Narrated by: Garth Greenwell
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind. This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value—art, memory, poetry, music, care—are thrown into sharp relief.
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A Masterpiece
- By Herluf Kanstrup on 09-22-24
By: Garth Greenwell
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Headshot
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- By: Rita Bullwinkel
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country.
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Wonderful Narrator
- By love it on 08-09-24
By: Rita Bullwinkel
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Our Evenings
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- By: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrated by: Prasanna Puwanarajah
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Dave Win, the son of a Burmese man he’s never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates.
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Sublime Collaboration
- By Phip Herrick on 11-20-24
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Memory Piece
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- By: Lisa Ko
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. “Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves,” they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity. By the time they are adults, their dreams are murkier.
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Maybe it's the narrator, but I could not continue
- By Judy in Salt Lake on 10-22-24
By: Lisa Ko
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- Ana
- 07-11-24
Honesty
I was a gut wrenching story of a hard learned life lesson. Hopefully the audience won’t consider further punishment necessary!
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- Michael Urquizu
- 11-23-24
2024 Book of The Year
This book one of those books that you pick up and can’t put down.
It was like hearing 3 Feet High and Rising (De La Soul) for the first time.
Instant Classic
I was blown away by Boryga’s style of writing.
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- shoshidge
- 03-18-24
the satirical novel America needs right now
Well narrated, funny and highly plausible.
I hope this book achieves the success I think it deserves.
As a bonus, it manages to make beans and rice sound appetizing.
good stuff
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- Rebecca Collins
- 02-22-25
Unique, totally engaging storytelling. Narration is 🔥
Such a fresh voice and theme. I loved the way this story built and unfolded, the details of specific time and place, and the character complexity and the unlikable likability.
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- satan's niece
- 12-23-24
Truthfully, nothing crazy happens
I normally don't enjoy listening to books that are just a constant stream of thoughts and little actions, but the narrator has a very calm and soothing voice. he didn't change his tone much when switching characters but you could still tell when was who. book did very well with its critique of "online warriors" and unchecked social justice actions/behaviors. solid read
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- Anonymous User
- 04-30-24
Lots of layers. Perfect narration of a point-of-view that becomes increasingly convincing as the story develops
way better than Yellowface, not as great as Erasure, interesting and insightful look at writers as cultural impostors
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- B OConnor
- 07-08-24
Raw, honest, real
This novel was so refreshingly new and pertinent. Great read for all YA and older.
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- Lee
- 04-29-24
Great Listen
Incredibly compelling novel and performance. Asks big, necessary, and timely questions about the stories we as a society reward. Highly recommend.
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- tabsi
- 07-15-24
Felt conflicted but that’s what books are meant to do
First, I want to say in my non-fiction reading, I love books like Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson and Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. This book proposes the simple life, the one that affords shelter, food, and even a very small nuclear family with love is all one needs. Fame, money. and outside recognition are not needed and may cause unhappiness. This book proposes we should grow where we are planted. I agree. However, I am still left with the argument that we can’t allow the level of greed in our society that allows the haves to suppress the have-nots. This book is thought provoking. Don’t stop listening or reading. The end provides food for thought.
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- Books
- 03-15-24
The Satire "Diversity Inc." Deserves
Andrew Boryga's Victim, awesomely narrated by Anthony Ray Perez, is the satire "Diversity, Inc." (Big shouts to Pamela Newkirk) deserves.
Like the best of satires, it will make some readers uncomfortable because of how Boryga takes no prisoners—both perpetrator & "victims" (no pun) are targets—but like the best of satires, it's not meant to be comfortable.
"Diversity, Inc." will rightfully get a lot of shine & centering when referring to this novel, but another huge bit that readers shouldn't lose sight of is the impact of social media; the currency & impact of the attention economy. The desperation it often creates & the addiction it cause when you are given your 15 minutes of fame, even in a circle as small as the writing community.
Javier Perez is a protagonist that will stick with you in ways similar to Thelonious Monk Ellison (Erasure) & Juniper Song (Yellowface).
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