{"product_id":"the-permission-del-ryan-9798253950227","title":"The Permission","description":"\u003cb\u003eA geneticist announces she has developed a test for consciousness. Approximately twelve percent of the global population tests negative. They are, by every measurable standard, not people.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoel Brennan is thirty years old. He pours concrete for a living. He stands in his daughter's doorway at night and listens to her breathe. He knows what he is. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe test says otherwise.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTHE PERMISSION follows one man through the year that follows - the loss of his job, his insurance, his bank account, his children's school, his place in his own home - as a society that has been handed a scientific verdict decides, with quiet efficiency, what to do with the people the verdict covers. It is a novel about what ordinary life looks like when the ground beneath it shifts by inches. About what a marriage holds when the world tells one of the people in it that they are not real. About a friendship between two men navigating the same water in the only ways they know how. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold in close, precise, devastating prose, THE PERMISSION is a literary speculative novel about an ordinary American town, a husband and father who will not be erased, and a question the world has quietly been waiting to be given permission to ask: who counts, and who gets to decide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor readers of Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go, Klara and the Sun), José Saramago (Blindness), Margaret Atwood, and Naomi Alderman.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTHE PERMISSION asks what it takes to unmake a person - and whether the answer has ever required the justification it claims to need.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e del Ryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798253950227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58d","brand":"del Ryan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172821770495,"sku":"9798253950227","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-permission-del-ryan-9798253950227","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}