- Fiction, alternative history, Identity (Psychology), Fiction, Nuclear warfare
Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States—an alternate timeline—she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York.
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Grave, classical in form, nostalgic and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- K. Chess
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 323
- Publisher
- Tin House Books, LLC, Tin House
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781947793255
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“Hel stepped over the threshold from the sagging porch, squeezing her body between towers of junk.”
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