Dead in Long Beach, California by Blackburn, Venita

Dead in Long Beach, California

"This book rewired my brain; it's a bonafide knockout." --Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth "You can...
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Author: Venita Blackburn
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Dead in Long Beach, California by Blackburn, Venita

Dead in Long Beach, California

$318.74

Dead in Long Beach, California

$318.74
Author: Venita Blackburn
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

"This book rewired my brain; it's a bonafide knockout." --Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth

"You can try bracing yourself for the ride this story takes you on, but it's 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 gut-busting and heartbreaking descent into one woman's fraying connection to reality, from a soon-to-be superstar.

Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay's dead body in the wake of his suicide. There's 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 triples--down on posing as her brother, risking not only her own sanity but her relationship with her precocious niece, Khadijah. As Coral's 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 long-buried memories, traumas, and secrets dangerously into the present.

A form-shifting and soul-crunching chronicle of grief and crisis, Venita Blackburn's debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California, is a fleet-footed marvel of self-discovery and storytelling that explores the depths of humankind's capacity for harm and healing. With the daring, often hilarious imagination that made her an acclaimed short-fiction innovator, Blackburn crafts a layered, page-turning reckoning with what it means to be alive, dead, and somewhere in between.

Author: Venita Blackburn
Publisher: MCD
Published: 01/23/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374602826


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2023 pg. 5
Publishers Weekly 09/18/2023

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