How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster: A Novel by Muriel Leung (Paperback)

Fiction - Dystopian - Science Fiction - Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic - LGBTQ+ - Bisexual

RELEASE DATE: 10/22/2024  (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE AND ARRIVE 1-2 DAYS AFTER THE RELEASE DATE)

A dark and tender debut set against a writhing backdrop of postapocalyptic New York City.

Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives. Mira reels from a devastating breakup with her partner, Mal, whose whereabouts are unknown, while her mother is plagued by furious dreams and her grandfather, Grandpa Why, stakes his claims as a rambunctious ghost. Across the hall, the cockroach Shin, also a ghost. As the world around them worsens, each character must learn to redefine what it means to live, die, and love at the end of the world.

AUTHOR BIO: 

Muriel Leung is the prize-winning author of three poetry collections and teaches critical studies and creative writing at the California Institute of the Arts. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Leung's novel strikes a satisfying chord, harmonizing joy and optimism with despair and melancholia. Surreal imagery combines with poetic prose to illustrate what life and love look like when crisis becomes commonplace and everyone is grieving--even the ghosts. At once absurd and profound.-- "Kirkus"

Muriel Leung gives us such elegance and tenderness and visions of loss and connection inside this broken world.--Aimee Bender, author of The Butterfly Lampshade