The Obsoletes: A Novel

  • Author: Simeon Mills
  • Narrator: Ramon de Ocampo
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 11:32:01
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Synopsis

In this “inventive, moving, and funny” (Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author) coming-of-age novel, two human-like teen robots navigate high school, basketball, and potentially life-threatening consequences if their true origins are discovered by the inhabitants of their intolerant 1980s Michigan hometown.

Fraternal twin brothers Darryl and Kanga are just like any other teenagers trying to make it through high school. They have to deal with peer pressure, awkwardness, and family drama. But there’s one closely guarded secret that sets them apart: they’re robots. So long as they keep their heads down, their robophobic neighbors won’t discover the truth about them and they just might make it through to graduation.

But when Kanga becomes the star of the basketball team, his worrywart brother Darryl now has to work a million times harder to keep them both out of the spotlight. Though they look, sound, and act perfectly human, if anyone in their small, depressed Michigan town were to find out what they truly are, they’d likely be disassembled by an angry mob in the middle of their school gym.

“Curious, sweet, heartbreaking, and redemptive” (Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author), this is a funny, poignant look at brotherhood, xenophobia, and the limits of one’s programming.

Chapters

  • 001 Obsoletes Open

    Duration: 27s
  • 002 Obsoletes Ch1

    Duration: 39min
  • 003 Obsoletes Ch2

    Duration: 21min
  • 004 Obsoletes Ch3

    Duration: 24min
  • 005 Obsoletes Ch4

    Duration: 26min
  • 006 Obsoletes Ch5

    Duration: 19min
  • 007 Obsoletes Ch6

    Duration: 22min
  • 008 Obsoletes Ch7

    Duration: 15min
  • 009 Obsoletes Ch8

    Duration: 25min
  • 010 Obsoletes Ch9

    Duration: 24min
  • 011 Obsoletes Ch10

    Duration: 11min
  • 012 Obsoletes Ch11

    Duration: 33min
  • 013 Obsoletes Ch12

    Duration: 19min
  • 014 Obsoletes Ch13

    Duration: 11min
  • 015 Obsoletes Ch14

    Duration: 17min
  • 016 Obsoletes Ch15

    Duration: 18min
  • 017 Obsoletes Ch16

    Duration: 26min
  • 018 Obsoletes Ch17

    Duration: 21min
  • 019 Obsoletes Ch18

    Duration: 23min
  • 020 Obsoletes Ch19

    Duration: 35min
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