This book rewired my brain its a bonafide knockout Kristen Arnett author of With Teeth
You can try bracing yourself for the ride this story takes you on but its best to just surrender Your wig is going to fall off no matter what you do Saeed Jones author of How We Fight for Our Lives
A gutbusting and heartbreaking descent into one womans fraying connection to reality from a soontobe superstar
Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jays dead body in the wake of his suicide Theres no note only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach California and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it Coral pockets the phone And then she starts responding to texts as her dead brother
Over the course of one week Coral the successful yet lonely author of a hit dystopian novel Wildfire becomes increasingly untethered from reality Blindsided by grief and operating with reckless determination she doubles and triplesdown on posing as her brother risking not only her own sanity but her relationship with her precocious niece Khadijah As Corals swirl of lies slowly closes in on her the quirky and mysterious alien world of Wildfire becomes enmeshed in her own reality in the process pushing longburied memories traumas and secrets dangerously into the present
A formshifting and soulcrunching chronicle of grief and crisis Venita Blackburns debut novel Dead in Long Beach California is a fleetfooted marvel of selfdiscovery and storytelling that explores the depths of humankinds capacity for harm and healing With the daring often hilarious imagination that made her an acclaimed shortfiction innovator Blackburn crafts a layered pageturning reckoning with what it means to be alive dead and somewhere in between
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar Straus and Giroux
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