Wide Awake is a collection of interviews with the objects that fill the background of our lives. Madison is young and finally living on her own, working through the surprises of growing up, heartbreak, and her newly diagnosed mental illness. Her story istold through journal entries and the unexpected perspective of the objects.--page 4 of cover.
For anyone who has wondered about the experience of objects that make up their everyday lives—Wide Awake is passing them the mic. Wide Awake is a collection of interviews with the inanimate objects that make up our everyday. The objects belong to Madison, a 20-something girl who is living on her own, in a relationship, and battling mental illness for the first time. The story unfolds through Madison’s journal entries, and through the perspectives of the objects of her life.
Revealed through a series of journal entries, the story of Wide Awake explores the perspectives of inanimate, everyday objects, surveying Madison’s interior life as she navigates early adulthood.