Crudo, Paperback

It's the summer of 2017 and Kathy--who bears a distinct resemblance to punk novelist Kathy Acker-- is getting married. Meanwhile, fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever closer to nuclear war. In Crudo , her first work of fiction, Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel with a fierce, compassionate account of learning to love when the end of the world seems in sight.

A New York Times Notable, Washington Post, NPR, Guardian, and Bustle Best Book of 2018

"Breathless and gripping. . . . Crudo ] traps the first summer of Trump and Brexit like a fly in amber." -- NPR

"A narrative written with immense vitality and, miraculously, the lightest of touches." -- Deborah Levy, Wall Street Journal

"A single moment in modernity, deconstructed by the savagely entertaining, Ackerinspired voice of Laing." -- Paris Review Daily