In this modern retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero does not whip up a tempest; instead, Miranda conjures up a marketing campaign for a team of ragtag heroes whose powers are less than super.
Miranda is a young, biracial, and queer account executive at a boutique advertising agency in Seattle. She is in the midst of an identity crisis, having bound herself to the societal rules of affluent, straight, white society in oder to succeed professionally. But even her work identity gets upturned when she is assigned a new client, an East Coast military contractor responsible for the deaths of at least 600 people and maybe for starting the civil war in Yemen.
As Miranda works to repair her client’s identity, she comes face to face with the holes in her own.
The Making of Brand Z is a novel of 84,500 words.