Autorentext

Lisa King is a fiction author and researcher whose work has been published in numerous academic journals. She holds degrees in psychology and neuroscience from Western University. In her spare time, Lisa enjoys family outings, ample coffee, and unapologetic napping. She lives in London, Ontario with her husband, daughter, and wonky- eyed cat. She is the author of two previous novels, Vanishing Hour and Blue Haven.

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When Mister Wilson, the young and terribly inexperienced CEO of GeneConX a start-up DNA ancestry company, learns his technology has identified superhuman traits among four anonymous consumers, he seizes the opportunity to brand America’s first superheroes: The Quad. Preparations begin and excitement intensifies — that is, until Mister and his team discover the four are a stocky middle-aged woman and her emotional-support ferret, a walker-bound old man with hip dysplasia, a teen from foster care who’s more concerned with finding his birth mom than becoming a superhero, and a French bulldog named Taco whose social-media-obsessed owner submitted the dog’s DNA as a hoax. It’s not exactly an ideal lineup, but GeneConX is committed to staying the course. And so begins a dramatic and disastrous adventure as three otherwise unspectacular human beings and one adorable mutt attempt to save the world, themselves, and ultimately each other. The Unremarkables is a humorous and heartfelt novel about identity, found family, and what it means to be “a somebody” — or not — amidst the ever-changing and often cruel embrace of pop culture.