Meaning the While is a work of social fantasy in which bureaucratic norms are developed and distorted to create a terrifying new world order. As a counter weight, mundane daily experiences of ignorance and indifference to a growing calamity, are heightened to a curious intensity of avoidance. It is the tension between these two narratives that drives the novel to its conclusion.
In a world unraveling, numbers rule, shelves wait, and humanity hangs in the balance
