Don Delillo's National Book Award–winning novel follows Jack Gladney, a Hitler Studies professor navigating family chaos, consumerism, and existential dread in Middle America. When an industrial accident unleashes a toxic cloud over his suburban landscape, the Gladney household confronts the very anxieties that have always haunted them—filtered through the constant drone of media, brand names, and modern noise. A darkly satirical masterpiece that captures the absurdity and danger lurking beneath American domestic life, White Noise remains hauntingly prophetic about our culture of distraction and mortality.