Black Wave by Michelle Tea
Takes a mind-bending shift into the world of apocalyptic fiction, a hugely inventive twist that takes the road-to-recovery storyline and literally smashes it to pieces.’ Sarah Ditum A metaliterary novel with flashes of mysticism. The language with which she describes the space between cities is that of her world, sexual and brazen, with a dark wit, because what is landscape without its human framing?’ Sarah Gilmartin There is an apocalypse on the horizon but Michelle doesn’t read the news, just the horoscopes.
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‘Tea knows how to turn the conundrums of life-writing inside out.
An apocalypse novel that makes you feel hopeful about the world: could anything be more timely?’ Hannah Gregory It’s sentimental and reckless and not quite like anything I’ve read before. ‘ Black Wave so disarming, a rollicking hallucinatory fantasy that’s as sobering as cold air. Number of pages: 344 Reviews Olivia Laing