Set-Point is a novel about personal, sexual, and physical identity. A voice that is at once brutally honest and humorous follows Luck Frank, a mid-20s aspiring screenwriter living in Montreal who begins work as a digital sex worker, selling data recorded on interactive erotic consoles. She keeps her work separate from her artistic and personal life until a user threatens to release her identity. Lucy struggles with body image, her mother’s illness, and her feelings about her new line of work while trying to sell a series of scripts parodying Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle series. Segments of the novel take place inside of U:3D, a massive multiplayer online world-building game in which Lucy’s project is produced. Unfolding in Montreal youth culture, this debut explores intellectual parody, mental and physical illness, and the relationship between technology and sex.
Set-Point
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Fawn Parker is a Fredericton-based writer and the author of six books including What We Both Know, nominated for the 2022 Giller Prize, and Hi, It's Me, nominated for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writer's Trust Award. Her poetry collection Soft Inheritance won the 2023 JM Abraham Atlantic Book Award and the 2023 Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize. Fawn is the 2025 Poet Laureate of Fredericton and a PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick.