In a winter-tired city, Naomi-night-shift caregiver, reluctant influencer, and devoted listener to radiators that drum-keeps herself alive by naming things: pills, bus routes, small mercies. Online, she finds Fever, a local rapper whose hallway verses sound like permission. They never meet. Instead, their orbit becomes a careful ethic-attention without possession, care without spectacle-while a scrolling public turns their restraint into a storyline. Told through threads, lives, DM drafts, voice notes, and a communal "we," Glass in the Feed is a propulsive, lyrical novel about how silence, discipline, and sound become a kind of prayer. When the chorus turns elegy, the city must decide what it means to listen. For fans of Ocean Vuong, Jesmyn Ward, and Jennifer Egan, this is a social-media epistolary about working-class care work, music culture, and the small drum that keeps time when the feed goes dark. Glass in the Feed is a novel about attention-the quiet, radical kind that saves us when everything else is loud. Octavius is a multidisciplinary writer and creative based in the U.S. Their work explores the sound of stillness, the weight of attention, and the beauty in ordinary survival. Glass in the Feed is their debut novel.
