JONAH KRUVANT
"Have the courage to shed the armor you’ve built around yourself or you will not be able to see things from another’s point of view— or the truth of who you really are."
From the author of The Last Book Ever Written, a dystopian novel Kirkus Reviews called “an entertaining narrative minefield that pops with surprise and grim echoes of our present,” comes The Armor You Built, a short story collection that is at once a biting satire on modern society and a refreshing take on what glues us together and pulls us apart.
"The ability to craft distinct and immersive worlds within the confines of short stories drives the collection, each offering serving as a microcosm for larger societal
issues and philosophical questions." —Publishers Weekly Booklife
What is an authentic self? Who are we without the armature of culture, family, religion, education and technology? The characters in these twelve short stories, which alternate among realistic fiction, dystopian satire, and science fiction, struggle to shed their protective layers.
A twenty-five-year-old pizza chef moves back to the U.S. after living in Naples, to find his perception of reality has changed. From the Bronx to Tokyo to Tel Aviv, societies are overrun with iPhoners and Androidians—people morphed into cell phones. In a world that views musical notes as currency, tax forms as art, religion as factual, and science as faith, a struggling businessman attempts to write the Great American Lease. The daughter of a forty-year-old lumberjack teaches him to feel the natural world in a new way. A doula stands up to an obstetrician compromised by the profit-driven medical system.
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THE ARMOR YOU BUILT
Author: Jonah Kruvant
Publication Date: October 5, 2024
Publisher: Alien Buddha
ISBN: 9798329019841
about the author
A writer, teacher, real estate developer, and student of the world, Jonah Kruvant received his bachelor’s degree from Skidmore College, his master’s degree in teaching from Fordham University, and his MFA degree from Goddard College. After living abroad in four different countries, Jonah settled in the New York area, where he wrote The Last Book Ever Written, published by PanAm Books in April 2015. His work has appeared in Digital Americana, Euonia Review, Exterminating Angel Press, Fiction on the Web, LIMN Literary and Arts Journal, The New Jersey Jewish News, On the Verge with Shareen Mansfield, Quail Bell Magazine, Scarlet Leaf Review, and Silver Blade Magazine. He lives with his wife and son.