Local Heavens [Paperback]

A corporate hacker. An elusive billionaire. A society trying to survive the American Nightmare. 

New York City, 2075. Filipino American Nick Carraway has just moved to the heart of the fractured New Americas, where he’s struck by the city’s contradictions—shining corporate towers casting bleak shadows over the slums of a crumbling middle class. 

When Nick meets alluring, new-money Jay Gatsby, he falls for Gatsby’s frank charm and confident aura. But in a city where the wealthy flaunt tech-enhanced bodies to cheat death, surfaces aren’t all they seem—and as a corporate-sanctioned cyberspace hacker, Nick knows that no secret can stay buried forever.He’s the reason they don’t. And his latest assignment? Investigate Gatsby himself. 

As Nick becomes entangled in the dark affairs of the elite—and the devastating fallout of their actions on the city’s most vulnerable—he must reckon with the limits of compassion and accountability across class and status. What takes precedence: Love or truth? Heart or soul? 

A brilliant reimagining of Fitzgerald’s classic tale of glamour, desire, and desperation,Local Heavensexamines the guardrails of morality . . . and the price of desire. 

"An evocative and powerful reworking of an American classic."—Publishers Weekly

"To see another take on Nick and Gatsby’s ill-fated affair, this time with a cyberpunk bent in K.M. Fajardo’s debut, is thrilling. The futuristic New York of 2075 is leagues apart from 1922, yet the same themes fit oh-so-well: Nick Carraway as the outsider, a Filipino American hacker infiltrating the elite upper echelon; Jay Gatsby using impossibly expensive tech to cheat death; secrets and betrayals brought to light by the little people sacrificed for caplc™