Flat Earth

(Paperback)

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'A novel to be torn through and passed around and treasured' Megan Nolan

'I read this book in a night, breathless and enraptured; wanting to save everyone in it, and wanting to watch them burn forever' Leslie Jamison

Avery is flailing financially and emotionally. Struggling with graduate school and the collection of cultural reports she is supposed to be writing, she dates older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. In desperation, she takes a job at a right-wing dating app.

Meanwhile her wealthy best friend, Frances, drops out of grad school, gets married, and somehow still manages to finish an experimental documentary about rural isolation and right-wing conspiracy theories. Frances's triumphant return to New York as the toast of the art world sends Avery into a tailspin, pushing her to make a series of dangerous decisions.

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In the tradition of Sheila Heti's How Should A Person Be, with the doggedness of I Love Dick and apocalyptic girlscaping of a Henry Darger painting, Flat Earth's Avery explores (with her scroll finger bleeding) both the art parties of New York and the internet, searching for answers to how she should live, and more importantly, what she should write. A captivating, fast, fun, devastating, insane, alarming, super modern novel... the reading-high I got from Flat Earth kept me offline for at least three days
If Mary Gaitskill and Renata Adler spent a weekend collaborating on a sequel to Elizabeth Hardwick's Sleepless Nights, maybe you'd have some precedent for Flat Earth. Anika Jade Levy's razor-thin, razor-sharp debut novel is unlike anything I've ever read before. In fragments that blaze like iPhone faces in dark bedrooms at 3:00 a.m., Flat Earth captures a zeitgeist from its daily ephemera to its unhinged gestalt, transmuting the mess into a brilliant, visceral, funny, provocative, resonant, essential work of art -- Justin Taylor, author of Reboot
Flat Earth is delivered in the calm, deliberate style of a great work of art which has always existed and is only now being uncovered, an especially impressive quality given that it concerns itself with the end of girlhood which is to say the end of the world. A novel to be torn through and passed around and treasured -- Megan Nolan