Katie is a writer. Katie is getting married. It's the summer of 2017, and the world is falling apart. Olivia Lang transforms her first novel into a stunning, funny, and raw tale of love during the apocalypse.
Like a 21st-century "Goodbye Berlin," "Crudo" depicts the turbulent summer of 2017 in real time from the perspective of commitment-phobic Kathy Acker—or maybe not Kathy Acker. In an extremely expensive Tuscan hotel and a Brexit-stunned Britain, Katie spends the first summer of her 30s trying to adjust to marriage. But she's not the only one changing. The political, social, and natural landscapes are all in jeopardy. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, and the planet is heating up. Is it even worth learning to love when the end of the world is so near? And how can one create, let alone live, when one angry tweet could end it all?