Docile Audiobook

Quotes

• "Don't call K.M. Szpara's Docile a dystopia. This book is something much stranger and yet closer to our own reality. Szpara has an amazing gift for immersing us in a world of exploitation and unbearable tenderness, and making it feel familiar and inescapable. Reading Docile changed me and left me with a new awareness of the structures of oppression that surround me. This book is an unforgettable story of human connection and the struggle to remain yourself in a world of debtors and creditors.

  — Charle Jane Anders

• If you're not careful, this disturbing, sexy, disturbingly sexy book will infect your brain, and you'll start wondering whether its miserable world is very different from our own, and how much choice any of us really have in this capitalist hellscape where so many of our options are set at birth. And then you might want to do something about it.

  — Sam J. Miller

• An unputdownable scifi dystopian erotica human rights masterpiece reminiscent of The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty—but this time, the beauty fights back.

  — Delilah S. Dawson

• This is what 50 Shades of Gray could have been, if only it had been more brutally honest with itself.

  — Jenn Lyons

• The hook may be titillating—to save his family, a farm boy sells himself, nudge nudge wink wink—but Docile follows through on that premise to its deepest roots and its most satisfying conclusion. Docile is an absolute feast.

  — Cecilia Tan

• A powerful, complex story that explores the dark consequences of a future with inherited debt. Docile is unflinching in its examination of class and wealth disparity while remaining a compelling and emotionally nuanced story.

  — C.L. Polk

• K.M. Szpara’s dazzling debut is gripping, intricate, and sexy as hell. In these times of capitalistic dysfunction, his terrifying, debt-soaked future America is all too believable, and the characters—with all their flaws and complex desires— will linger with you long after the last page. I didn’t want to stop reading!

  — JY Yang

• Docile is a neuropunk cocktail that fires on all cylinders…as political experiment, grim prophecy, and heady love story. A canny gutpunch of a book.

  — Damon Suede

• With unflinching empathy, Szpara explores the depths of love, complicity, and all the systems that bind us.

  — Ruthanna Emrys