Antkind

'Magnificent, genius, enraging, mysterious, joyous, terrifying and, above all, hilarious! Antkind might contain the universe' Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less 'To paraphrase Charlie Kaufman, it's like a brain factory in there! This is a whopper of a book, bursting with the driest of humour, the strangest of scenarios, and the most brilliant of observations. It is wholly original, maddening, and marvellous' Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book 'Each page is so stuffed with invention, audacity and hilarity, it feels like an act of defiance. Antkind is a fever dream you don't want to be shaken awake from, a thrill ride that veers down stranger and stranger alleys until you find yourself in a reality so kaleidoscopic you will question your own sanity. Or: the novel only Charlie Kaufman could pull off' Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette 'Antkind is majestic, Nabokovian, labyrinthine. A cathedral of self-pity and hubris you visit on your lunch break and then quit your job so as to spend more time in. The story folds endlessly in on itself as it spreads outwards into your mind. Deeply, horrifically funny; spiritually desolating, and thereby consoling. The voice, in all its absurdity, humanity and desperation, sabotages your own interior monologue forever. It's like the worst dream I've ever had, but one that I desperately didn't want to end' Luke Kennard, author of The Transition