Casual
About This Book
Valya relies on CASUAL, a game-like app, to manage her depression and anxiety and keep her mood steady. It also helped her, once considered infertile, to become pregnant. But new laws bar her from using the device while she is the sole caregiver of an infant. Her gaslighting ex is no help, and she cannot afford a nanny, so her obstetrician insists she wean herself off CASUAL before the birth. She is determined to quit, and a supportive new love interest from her birthing class stands by her. Still, switching off CASUAL turns her anxiety into full-blown panic attacks. Her psychiatrist suggests a controversial clinical trial in which a tandem implant would be placed in the baby, allowing Valya to keep hers active. She must decide whether to try parenting without CASUAL or to install a barely tested device in her vulnerable child. The novel offers a stark, cutting look at a near future that closely resembles the present. Its themes are bodily autonomy and the struggle for mental health in an increasingly divided world.
ISBN: 9781959790297
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