Unplugging from the Matrix

By LESTON GREENIDGE

What if the glitch you just noticed wasn't a glitch at all?

Mara Voss is thirty-four, four years divorced, and numb enough to her own life that she barely notices it anymore. Then a pigeon flies into the same window three times in one afternoon, and something in her refuses to look away.

What starts as a strange coincidence becomes an impossible question: what if the world she has always trusted is not the original, but a copy, run for reasons she was never meant to ask about? With the help of a physicist who found the same crack in the universe forty years before her, Mara follows the evidence from a grocery store parking lot to the edge of reality itself, through d j vu, quantum physics, a resistance of ordinary people who refuse to stop looking at the wall, and an organization that would very much prefer she didn't.

Unplugging from the Matrix is a fast, page-turning journey through one of the biggest questions a mind can ask, and a quieter one underneath it: what do you owe the people you love, once you've finally started paying attention?

For readers of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Project Hail Mary: big ideas, real stakes, and a story that never slows down.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HBQHR5WJ
• ISBN13: 9798188414535
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"