Glass in the Feed

In a winter-tired city, Naomi-night-shift caregiver, reluctant influencer, and devoted listener to radiators that drum-keeps herself alive by naming things: pills, bus routes, small mercies. Online, she finds Fever, a local rapper whose hallway verses sound like permission. They never meet. Instead, their orbit becomes a careful ethic-attention without possession, care without spectacle-while a scrolling public turns their restraint into a storyline. Told through threads, lives, DM drafts, voice notes, and a communal "we," Glass in the Feed is a propulsive, lyrical novel about how silence, discipline, and sound become a kind of prayer. When the chorus turns elegy, the city must decide what it means to listen. For fans of Ocean Vuong, Jesmyn Ward, and Jennifer Egan, this is a social-media epistolary about working-class care work, music culture, and the small drum that keeps time when the feed goes dark. Glass in the Feed is a novel about attention-the quiet, radical kind that saves us when everything else is loud.