Satin Island

Satin Island by a notable author is a novel that explores the idea that our access to the truth is always influenced and obscured. The main character U. is a corporate ethnographer tasked with writing an all-encompassing report about our era, but he finds himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data and lost in buffer zones. His developing interest in oil spills adds depth to his character. Through U's experiences, the novel captures the way we experience our world and our efforts to find meaning in it.