Sensation

This intriguing new novel follows Julia Hernandez, a woman who left her husband, shot a real-estate developer out to gentrify Brooklyn, and then disappeared without a trace, slipping between the cracks of our existence and into one beyond it--the Simulacrum.  Here reside two species whose eternal conflict has been guiding and thwarting humanity throughout history through parasitic manipulation, and more recently, the worlds' shared arena of technology.  These species include a group of anarchistic wasps and a collective of hyperintelligent spiders, and in their world, the Simulacrum, just as in her own, Julia has become a symbol and media sensation, wrapped up in something much bigger than her.  When her ex-husband Raymond spots her at a grocery store, he too is drawn into the conflict between the spiders and wasps, and into an underworld of political gestures and Internet organizing that is attempting to overthrow a ruling class it knows nothing about.  With constant perspective changes, strange discoveries, twists and turns, this is a book you won't want to put down till it's finished.