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THE END OF THE WORLD HOUSE
A comedic novel about two young women trying to save their friendship as the world collapses around them.
Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school. Bertie is a semi-failed cartoonist, working for a large Silicon Valley tech firm where her job is to draw the company's ubiquitous dinosaur logo day in and day out in an attempt to put a friendly face on capitalism. Her job depresses her, but not as much as the fact that Kate has recently decided to move from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
When the novel opens, Bertie and Kate - and the rest of the world - have been living amidst a series of global catastrophes ranging from geopolitical to environmental, and the result is that infrastructure is collapsing and travel for pleasure is virtually nonexistent. To distract themselves from the pain of their upcoming separation, the pair decides to take an impulsive trip to Paris as a sort of last hurrah before vacationing is completely a thing of the past.
In Paris, they are offered a private tour of the Louvre by an enigmatic stranger. The women find themselves alone in the museum, where nothing is quite as it seems. Caught up in a day that keeps repeating itself, Bertie and Kate are eventually separated and Bertie is faced with a mystery that threatens to derail everything. In order to make her way back to Kate, Bertie has to figure out how much control she has over her future - and her past - and how to survive an apocalypse when the world keeps refusing to end.
Adrienne Celt is originally from Seattle, but now lives in Tucson, Arizona. She is the author of two previous novels: Invitation to a Bonfire, currently being adapted for TV by AMC, and The Daughters, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR. Adrienne is also a cartoonist, and she publishes a weekly webcomic at LoveAmongtheLampreys.com.
When the novel opens, Bertie and Kate - and the rest of the world - have been living amidst a series of global catastrophes ranging from geopolitical to environmental, and the result is that infrastructure is collapsing and travel for pleasure is virtually nonexistent. To distract themselves from the pain of their upcoming separation, the pair decides to take an impulsive trip to Paris as a sort of last hurrah before vacationing is completely a thing of the past.
In Paris, they are offered a private tour of the Louvre by an enigmatic stranger. The women find themselves alone in the museum, where nothing is quite as it seems. Caught up in a day that keeps repeating itself, Bertie and Kate are eventually separated and Bertie is faced with a mystery that threatens to derail everything. In order to make her way back to Kate, Bertie has to figure out how much control she has over her future - and her past - and how to survive an apocalypse when the world keeps refusing to end.
Adrienne Celt is originally from Seattle, but now lives in Tucson, Arizona. She is the author of two previous novels: Invitation to a Bonfire, currently being adapted for TV by AMC, and The Daughters, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR. Adrienne is also a cartoonist, and she publishes a weekly webcomic at LoveAmongtheLampreys.com.
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Published 2022-04-19 by Simon & Schuster |