Bøker av Benjamin Obler

Mrs. Candace Winslow is hosting a party at her opulent home. It is the annual awards dinner of the Foundation for the Advancement of Inclusivity and Recognition, whose board she chairs. Every guest arriving hopes to be the recipient of the FAIR Award, which recognizes hardships, injustices, beleaguered states, neglect, plights, disadvantages, and other societal transgressions. There's also a cash prize at stake, of $25,000.Because of the risk of a hate-motivated attack and a leak of the winner, all guest/candidates must surrender their mobile phones. This leaves them all on edge. But little do the party-goers realize that the greatest threat to their safety is themselves.The Exploding Fete is a story of an evening rife with good intentions that is interrupted by one man bent on revenge. The book employs Narrative Branch Technology¿, which allows readers to choose the outcome that best aligns with their worldview. Despite this accommodation, a probing question arises: Do the rich get away with murder? And what about media attention? Does it do anything to lessen the vulnerability of the helpless, the hapless, the indigent, the indoctrinated, the addicted, the sublimated, the oppressed, the hungry, the starving, the poor, the injured, the overlooked, the maligned, the slandered...

Melvin Podgorski is young, na ve, American - and a coffee fanatic. It's this passion that leads him from his native Chicago to 1990s Glasgow to scout out the prospects for a US coffee franchise. Looking for an escape from his suffocatingly suburban parents and the tangled wreckage of a divorce, he finds himself floundering in an alien land of Glaswegian dialect and radical student politics. As he becomes increasingly entangled with one particularly charming local and her militant ex-boyfriend, his efforts to keep the past and the present separate are put to the test, and soon his old life in Chicago and his recently found freedom in Glasgow are set for an emotional and catastrophic collision . . . Imbued with dark, mournful notes, dashes of warm humour and the bittersweet tang of learning the hard way, Javascotia combines a feel-good flavour with a deep substance.