In store now! Grievers by Adrienne Maree Brown

A dystopian novel which asks the question: what happens when an entire population is paralysed by grief? Set in a near-future Detroit whilst a strange plague with all the symptoms of grief sweeps across the city, to the point that it can no longer function. More deeply however, it is a thrilling, and emotionally taught novel which is not afraid to ask big questions within the framework of a thrilling dystopian vision. Why do we grieve, and how much are we willing to sacrifice before we let it go?

Part one of an urgent new series. 

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Grievers by Adrienne Maree Brown

Paperback £9.99

Grievers is the story of a city so plagued by grief that it can no longer function. Dune’s mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks—in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life—casting them into a non-responsive state from which no one recovers. Dune must navigate poverty and the loss of her mother as Detroit’s hospitals, morgues, and graveyards begin to overflow. As the quarantined city slowly empties of life, she investigates what caused the plague, and what might end it. In anguish, she follows in the footsteps of her late researcher father, who has a physical model of Detroit’s history and losses set up in their basement. She dusts the model off and begins tracking the sick and dying, discovering patterns, finding comrades in curiosity, conspiracies for the fertile ground of the city, and the unexpected magic that emerges when the debt of grief is cleared.

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