Crudo

She had no idea what to do with love, she experienced it as invasion, as the prelude to loss and pain, she really didn't have a clue.

Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It's the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Fast-paced and frantic, Crudo unfolds in real time from the full-throttle perspective of a commitment-phobic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker.

From a Tuscan hotel for the superrich to a Brexit-paralyzed United Kingdom, Kathy spends the first summer of her forties adjusting to the idea of a lifelong commitment. But it's not only Kathy who's changing. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever-closer to nuclear war. How do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all?

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 near.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/11/2018
ISBN: 9780393652727
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2018 pg. 46
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2018
Publishers Weekly 07/16/2018
Library Journal 08/01/2018 pg. 86
Shelf Awareness 10/02/2018