It's 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to
meetings and they ring their support person, Diane. They have just
enough money for one Tom Yum between them, but mostly they eat carrot
sandwiches. They volunteer at the Salvation Army shop, and sometimes
they sleep with men for money. They live with Heidi and Dell, who are
also like them. It's 2006. Peggy and Greta have two jobs: a job at a
call centre, and a job as a moderator for a website. They're teaching
themselves how to code. Heidi and Dell don't live together anymore, and
Dell keeps getting into trouble. One day, Peggy and Greta turn around
and there's only one of them. It's 2018. Margaret lives next door to
Heidi and her family. She has a job writing code that analyses data for
a political organisation, and she's good at it. Every day she checks an
obsolete cellphone she found under her bed, waiting for messages. She
struggles to stay sober. Then, one day, there are two of them again,
both trying to figure out where they have come from. Nothing to See is
a compelling, brilliantly original novel about life in the era of
surveillance capitalism, when society prefers not to see those who are
different.
