Wake Word

By Julian Ashford

Everything he predicted came true. He slept through all of it.

On the longest night of 2012, hours after he swore the machines were coming, twenty-one-year-old Jonah Winter goes off a bridge into the dark - and does not wake for twenty years.

His twin brother keeps the vigil. Every night, Thomas takes Jonah's pulse by hand and reports the news to a man who cannot answer - the field, the world, his own narrowing life - while everything Jonah foresaw arrives, one impossible thing at a time.

Then, into a world that no longer needs anyone to see what he alone could see, Jonah opens his eyes. Spare, wry, and quietly devastating, Wake Word asks what a person is for when the thing he did best is finally done better by something else.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8B8P31Z
• ISBN13: 9798186068037
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"