UnWorld is not a story you simply read—it’s a terrain you navigate. Jayson Greene, known for his searing memoir Once More We Saw Stars, makes his fiction debut with a novel that challenges the very architecture of what it means to feel, to remember, and to be.
The book orbits a tragedy: the death of a teenage boy named Alex, who either jumped or fell from a cliff. That ambiguity is not a plot device—it’s a thematic artery, feeding every chapter with tension, guilt, and the aching absence of closure. Greene gives voice to four narrators: Anna, Alex’s grieving mother; Samantha, his closest friend and possible witness; Cathy, a recovering addict turned scholar of synthetic identity; and Aviva, an emancipated “upload” born from Anna’s own neurological architecture.