The Millennial Reincarnations

When over the course of a decade a group of high society New York and Shanghai millennials are forced to question whether their shared experiences mean they are here on earth for a higher purpose, the answer becomes resoundingly affirmative. With spellbinding prose and a unique sensitivity for the insecurities, desires and needs of the Millennial generation, Daniel Mark Harrison has written a novel like no other out there. The Millennial Reincarnations goes to places that neither satire, romance or thriller today dare venture, harking back to a period of mid-18th century and early post-modern literary experimentation, reminiscent of masters of prose such as James Joyce, Anne Cécile Desclos and Donatien Alphonse François. Like the great voices that challenges the status quo in order to capture the subconscious zeitgeist of the era, in The Millennial Reincarnations Harrison paints a portrait of the areas of the human mind that are forbidden to novelists of the day. In doing so, he captures a deeply sensual and alarming innocence of mind, showing us most of all what it means to be Millennial, which he describes as "an entire generation at once emotionally detached and dependently wealthy." Harrison explores in explicit fashion where our first ideas and personal fantasies have taken shape in this new virtual era, demonstrating in a uniquely lyrical context explicitly how these experiences have come to define our principles of love and hate, pleasure and pain, and loyalty and betrayal. Critics have hailed the book "easily the best this year" (Huffington Post), "complex, rich, and engrossing all in one ... a unique five star read" (Mid West Book Review), "ambitious" (Il Figlio), and "required reading" (Jeffrey Robinson, #1 NYT Bestseller), lauding "Harrison's brash confidence in the privileged, fast-moving world he describes" (Kirkus) where "the female characters ... are Katniss-style strong" (Bustle). Since the publication of the first edition of The Millennial Reincarnations was published in late 2015, this book has become considered to be nothing less than an early cult classic for the Millennial era.

From the Inside Flap

"The problem with [fictional] literature today [is that] you either have your basic whodunnit murder story, or you have your seen- it-since-the-70s dystopian sci-fi narative ... or else it's your trashy boy-meets-girl-breaks-up-with-boy romance genre beyond that [but] Harrison gets right to the heart of ideas that get little play in popular media circles ... The ficitnoal narrative that runs throughout the book is sort of Steven King-meets-Phillip Roth, with explicit and creepy narratives about a bunch of millennials exploring a lifestyle of excessive drug-taking, questioning every value that they are taught by their parents, sometimes making piles of money and winning all the accolades of celebrity ... all while seemingly trying to figure what their intuitive rationale tells them to do with their lives ... I applaud the effort Harrison is making to try and make literature a place where ideas can be exchanged and discussed in a way that no one has done before. In that respect at least, this was easily the best book I have read this year." - Azeem Khan, Huffington Post

From the Back Cover

"Daniel Mark Harrison is an ambitious technology evangelist who has written a book (itself ambitious) that aims to upgrade the Cartesian "Cogito Ergo Sum" for something more applicable to the the Millennial era. The Millennial Reincarnations is a collage of stories set between 1990 and 2014, where the theme is not so much ideological as it is governed by the actions of the Millennial generation ... [Harrison] does not just line up the theoretical or moral dilemmas of man struggling with the prospect of a future post-human or trans-human self (which is not that new in and of itself), but the author instead explores the influence of this concept today, on how Millennials conceive of their work, the economy, their social bonds, their observance of the law, their sexual interactions, their accumulation of knowledge, as well as the criteria they use to make critical decisions about the kind of life they want and the aspirations they seek to cultivate ... These are certainly not matters to be entrusted to an algorithm." -- Mattia Ferraresi, Il Foglio

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About The Millennial ReincarnationsWhen over the course of a decade a group of high society New York and Shanghai millennials are forced to question whether their shared experiences mean they are here on earth for a higher purpose, the answer becomes resoundingly affirmative. With spellbinding prose and a unique sensitivity for the insecurities, desires and needs of the Millennial generation, Harrison has written a novel like no other. The Millennial Reincarnations goes to places that neither satire, romance or thriller today dare venture, harking back to a period of mid-18th century and early post-modern literary experimentation, reminiscent of masters of prose such as James Joyce, Anne Cécile Desclos and Donatien Alphonse François. Like the great voices that challenges the status quo in order to capture the subconscious zeitgeist of the era, in The Millennial ReincarnationsHarrison paints a portrait of the areas of the human mind that are forbidden to novelists of the day. In doing so, he captures a deeply sensual and alarming innocence of mind, showing us most of all what it means to be Millennial, which he describes as "an entire generation at once emotionally detached and dependently wealthy."Harrison explores in explicit fashion where our first ideas and personal fantasies have taken shape in this virtual era, demonstrating in a uniquely lyrical context explicitly how these experiences define our principles of love and hate, pleasure and pain, and loyalty and betrayal. With reviewers calling the book "easily the best ... this year ... Stephen King-meets-Phillip Roth" (Huffington Post) and "complex, rich, and engrossing all in one ... a unique five star read read" (Mid West Book Review), "ambitious" (Il Figlio) and "required reading" (Jeffrey Robinson, #1 NYT Bestseller) where the "female characters ... are Katniss-style strong" (Bustle), The Millennial Reincarnations is turning out to be nothing less than a cult classic for the Millennial era.

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