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[Jackie]
Vs.
AI

Nine days. Four weapons. One thirteen-year-old with taped glasses, a talking rabbit, and a sister who keeps a surveillance log on her own family.

Jackie Lee is thirteen years old, was adopted from China by Texan parents, and has been kicked out of six progressive learning environments in seven years. Last month, on a school field trip to San Francisco's Chinatown, the chef of an unsuspecting restaurant turned out to be a dragon — and Jackie's grandfather, who he had always thought of as just a quiet man who smelled of menthol and gave him socks for Christmas, turned out to be the Kitchen God.

This is the story of the nine days that followed.

Begin · Chapter 1

I Accidentally Vaporize My Mandarin Teacher's Restaurant

Family dinner at Golden Phoenix. A fortune cookie. A field trip to Chinatown that goes very wrong.

Listen · 23 chapters

The Audiobook

The full novel narrated. About seven hours of voice. Listen on the road, in the kitchen, anywhere.

Reference · Appendix

Field Notes & Glossary

Jackie's notes on HALO, the Society of Ancient Traditions, the Council of Eight, the Truthsayer Brush, and seven things he learned in nine days.

The Chapters

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01I Accidentally Vaporize My Mandarin Teacher's Restaurant02Three Old Ladies Hand Me A Fortune Cookie03My Sister Loses Her Mind, Literally04My Mother Teaches Me Where The Money Comes From05I Cheat On The Standardized Apocalypse Test06I Become Supreme Lord Of The Houseless07My Dinner Goes Up In Dragon Smoke08We Capture A Banner With My Face On It09I Am Offered An Impossible Quest10I Ruin A Perfectly Good Greyhound11We Visit The Garden Of Forgotten Things12We Get Advice From A Two-Thousand-Year-Old Pharmacist13I Plunge Into A Flooded Chicago14I Become A Known Fugitive15A Fox Spirit Buys Me Pizza16We Take A Detour Through The Lotus Casino17We Shop For The End Of The World18Statue Of Liberty Does Obedience School19We Find Out The Truth, Sort Of, In Heaven20I Argue With An Algorithm About What People Wanted21The Hearing22I Settle My Tab With The Algorithm23The Prophecy Comes True24Field Notes Appendix25Glossary