Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town – Cory Doctorow

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Cory Doctorow’s Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a mind-bending mix of urban fantasy, magical realism, and tech-infused storytelling. Set in Toronto’s artistic neighborhoods, this genre-defying novel follows Alan, an entrepreneur with a bizarre family history—his father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and his brothers include Russian nesting dolls.

As Alan works on a revolutionary plan to bring free wireless Internet to the city, his past resurfaces in unsettling ways. Two of his nesting-doll brothers show up, starving and desperate, claiming their smallest member has vanished. Meanwhile, Alan suspects that Davey—a brother he and his siblings once killed—may have returned for revenge.

Balancing themes of connectivity, identity, and myth, Doctorow crafts a unique and thought-provoking narrative that challenges the limits of reality. If you enjoy books that mix technology with folklore and the surreal, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a must-read.