Booker Prize-longlisted Dublin-born, Irish author, resident of New York, Colum McCann’s epic novel Twist is about connection, disconnection and destruction. McCann watches seavengers on a coastal dump in Ghana collecting fragments of copper and rubber worth “a week’s worth of food” from discarded lengths of fibre-optic cable. In Twist, inspecting a damaged end of a data-carrying cable, Anthony Fennel, a journalist in pursuit of a story buried at the bottom of the sea: the network of tiny fibre-optic tubes that carry the world’s communication across the ocean floor and what happens when they snap. Separated from his son and sunk … Continue reading Jetsam of our truths