I Am No One: A Novel

"Patrick Flanery’s novel I Am No One asks whether it is more delusional to think you are being watched, or to think you are not being watched. In it, a mild history professor begins to suspect he is under surveillance. Though Flanery undeniably has a point to make, one about privacy in this “new regime of data collection [that] does not see innocence first but assumes guilt by algorithmic association,” he resists the obvious at every turn. This is not a polemic — instead, emotional and psychological precision are the order of the day."