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Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World
"This emotionally resonant dystopian succeeds at turning the end of the world into a new beginning." - Publishers Weekly
A love story set in a bad dream about America, concerning permanent debt, secret police, making dinner, and unpaid invoices—right up until the end of the world.
It’s Brooklyn. It’s winter. It’s so cold outside you could execute billionaires in the street about it. Sam lives with Eleanor and they are in love. He has three or four outstanding invoices that would each cover rent for a month. At some point, the President is going to make some absolutely wild announcements that will only end in doom.
In a surreal, funny, and heart-breaking version of reality, Sasha Fletcher’s highly anticipated first novel occupies that rare register that manages to speak to an increasingly incomprehensible world.
Through scenes that poetically transform the mundane into the sublime and the absurd into the tragic , Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World is about the exquisite beauty of being in love in a world that is falling apart.
A love story set in a bad dream about America, concerning permanent debt, secret police, making dinner, and unpaid invoices—right up until the end of the world.
It’s Brooklyn. It’s winter. It’s so cold outside you could execute billionaires in the street about it. Sam lives with Eleanor and they are in love. He has three or four outstanding invoices that would each cover rent for a month. At some point, the President is going to make some absolutely wild announcements that will only end in doom.
In a surreal, funny, and heart-breaking version of reality, Sasha Fletcher’s highly anticipated first novel occupies that rare register that manages to speak to an increasingly incomprehensible world.
Through scenes that poetically transform the mundane into the sublime and the absurd into the tragic , Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World is about the exquisite beauty of being in love in a world that is falling apart.
272 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2022
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April 14, 2022
I wrote this book, and am very proud of it.
March 9, 2022
“Be Here To Love Me at the End of the World” (2022) is a unique dystopian novel centered around a character driven storyline by Sasha Fletcher. In addition, Fletcher has written a full length collection of poetry: “It’s Going To Be A Good Day” (2016)-- plus a novella and several chapbooks.
(Epigraph) “A love story in a bad dream about America.”
The two main characters of the storyline are Sam and Eleanor, they love one other deeply and live in Eleanor’s small Brooklyn apartment with a nice bathroom. Sam, unable to secure regular employment works contracting freelance writing/editing. Unfortunately, clients are slow to forward payment for services, and Sam pays for the food he cooks for Eleanor with his credit card, and is burdened by high student loan debt that has doubled from the original amount borrowed over a period of eight years. Whereas Eleanor has a steady job working for a tech firm, her pay doesn’t keep up economically, but she gets a free pass to ride the train to work and gets free vouchers to ballgames, that Sam really enjoys.
The storyline can take the reader from World War II, to the assassination of an American president and his brother in the 1960’s. The death of Christ and the start of the Gregorian calendar on October 15, 1582 is mentioned. The Jews sit Shiva for a week since it took our Lord seven days to create the earth. There are a few other characters that are introduced midway through the novel. It is particularly stressful for the U.S. to live with the constant fear and threat of nuclear attack. The president rules the country, reducing unemployment benefits, claiming people aren’t looking hard enough for work. The secret police can arrive from anywhere within minutes zipping people into body bags then driving away in unmarked vans. The NYC trains run on schedule but can be stopped without notice at any time. A multitude of Angelic beings watch over people and the city, a child drives his tricycle out a high apartment window and then plays happily in the street below.
There are also ghosts in this surreal environment and much is observed. Despite re-reading several parts and skimming others, especially the repetitive detailed elaborate meals that Sam prepared for his beloved Eleanor. I was so curious to see if I could actually understand what was happening in this long complex storyline, the interpretation and meaning are left to the reader to contemplate. (2*FAIR) **With thanks to Melville House Publishing via NetGalley for the DDC for the purpose of review.
(Epigraph) “A love story in a bad dream about America.”
The two main characters of the storyline are Sam and Eleanor, they love one other deeply and live in Eleanor’s small Brooklyn apartment with a nice bathroom. Sam, unable to secure regular employment works contracting freelance writing/editing. Unfortunately, clients are slow to forward payment for services, and Sam pays for the food he cooks for Eleanor with his credit card, and is burdened by high student loan debt that has doubled from the original amount borrowed over a period of eight years. Whereas Eleanor has a steady job working for a tech firm, her pay doesn’t keep up economically, but she gets a free pass to ride the train to work and gets free vouchers to ballgames, that Sam really enjoys.
The storyline can take the reader from World War II, to the assassination of an American president and his brother in the 1960’s. The death of Christ and the start of the Gregorian calendar on October 15, 1582 is mentioned. The Jews sit Shiva for a week since it took our Lord seven days to create the earth. There are a few other characters that are introduced midway through the novel. It is particularly stressful for the U.S. to live with the constant fear and threat of nuclear attack. The president rules the country, reducing unemployment benefits, claiming people aren’t looking hard enough for work. The secret police can arrive from anywhere within minutes zipping people into body bags then driving away in unmarked vans. The NYC trains run on schedule but can be stopped without notice at any time. A multitude of Angelic beings watch over people and the city, a child drives his tricycle out a high apartment window and then plays happily in the street below.
There are also ghosts in this surreal environment and much is observed. Despite re-reading several parts and skimming others, especially the repetitive detailed elaborate meals that Sam prepared for his beloved Eleanor. I was so curious to see if I could actually understand what was happening in this long complex storyline, the interpretation and meaning are left to the reader to contemplate. (2*FAIR) **With thanks to Melville House Publishing via NetGalley for the DDC for the purpose of review.
March 24, 2022
6 out of 5.
This book is magnificent. It is a joyful shout, a party in summer, a good sweater in winter. It's kind and full of life, it's angry at the world (as we all should be), it's funny and sexy and god the food! It's strange and compelling, full of angels and Presidents and questions about whether or not love can be enough to get us through this life. Spoiler (not really): it definitely could be.
This book is magnificent. It is a joyful shout, a party in summer, a good sweater in winter. It's kind and full of life, it's angry at the world (as we all should be), it's funny and sexy and god the food! It's strange and compelling, full of angels and Presidents and questions about whether or not love can be enough to get us through this life. Spoiler (not really): it definitely could be.
March 28, 2022
Not sure yet how to rate this morsel. I want to praise it for just being so obscure, so over the top, so wildly train of thought. I also want to criticize it for being repetitive, sometimes monotonous.
While I greatly enjoyed this read I also at times felt as if I wanted a bit MORE, I wanted to see more variation, more places, more tragedy, disaster, crime, not just "the police are bad" we get that, we see that.
From page 1 to page 362 there isn't too much progress in the story line, and I was a bit saddened by this as I really was hoping for there to be more of a progression. I wanted to see the world reach more of an end and not just be about the same from start to finish.
Over all think I would suggest this to someone looking for a fever dream of a book, and describe it as: A book about a couple living through the collapse of a society run by money and a crooked law enforcement, and the struggles they face to maintain normalcy and keep their heads above the metaphorical water while waiting for the promised day that things will get better/easier.
⭐️3.5? This may change as I digest more.
While I greatly enjoyed this read I also at times felt as if I wanted a bit MORE, I wanted to see more variation, more places, more tragedy, disaster, crime, not just "the police are bad" we get that, we see that.
From page 1 to page 362 there isn't too much progress in the story line, and I was a bit saddened by this as I really was hoping for there to be more of a progression. I wanted to see the world reach more of an end and not just be about the same from start to finish.
Over all think I would suggest this to someone looking for a fever dream of a book, and describe it as: A book about a couple living through the collapse of a society run by money and a crooked law enforcement, and the struggles they face to maintain normalcy and keep their heads above the metaphorical water while waiting for the promised day that things will get better/easier.
⭐️3.5? This may change as I digest more.
October 21, 2021
If a socially conscious, socialism leaning, well-educated, precociously stylistic, hopelessly romantic millennial foodie was somehow magically turned into a book…this would have been the result.
Which is to say it is about as tolerable as you would find such a person. But also, strangely compelling. Quite a bizarre combination. Under all the stylistic flair which includes weirdly formatted pages where the text takes up only about 3/4th of the page lined up in a neat vertical columns, there is actually a proper story.
The story features two characters, Sam and Eleanor. They are somewhere in their early 30s, somewhere in NYC, trying to get by in the world increasingly hostile to bare survival. Sam is underemployed, but he’s good in bed and in the kitchen, so Eleanor floats the bills for most of the story. They are very much in love, though they are smart enough to be justifiably terrified by the world around them.
The story is presented by a sort of omniscient narrator, who, along with the characters, tends to go on these elaborate sociopolitical tangents chronicling the decline of the country around them. These are actually surprisingly good, often the highlights of the entire production, because they are so (sadly) accurate that they create a nicely apocalyptic ambiance for the entire production. It’s a slow apocalypse, like the proverbial boiling of a frog, the water gets hotter slowly enough that people continue to tread it.
Sam especially is completely hampered by college loans, so there’s much discussion of that. But there are other things, like race, politics, etc. And while you may disagree with the novel’s distinctly socialism take on them, the facts are undeniably there for you to draw your own depressing conclusions. Or not, presumably, since we do live in the country that has a peculiar disdain for facts.
The thing with this novel is that normally I likely would find it tediously precocious, over-stylized, over-done (and there's way too much about food here, it's a freaking cooking show of a book), and yet there’s something so nice and refreshing and relatable about having someone be terrified and appalled by the state of things the way one, by all rights, ought to be…that it kind of acts as the book’s saving grace.
Overall, from a purely fictional perspective this may not be the greatest novel and it certainly won’t be to everyone’s liking, although it’s terribly hip and is sure to gather acclaim that way, but it is undeniably an excellent representation of its time and its generation and on that merit alone it works very nicely. The end of the world is nigh, don’t be alone, find someone to love. Find a book to read. Thanks Netgalley.
This and more at https://advancetheplot.weebly.com/
Which is to say it is about as tolerable as you would find such a person. But also, strangely compelling. Quite a bizarre combination. Under all the stylistic flair which includes weirdly formatted pages where the text takes up only about 3/4th of the page lined up in a neat vertical columns, there is actually a proper story.
The story features two characters, Sam and Eleanor. They are somewhere in their early 30s, somewhere in NYC, trying to get by in the world increasingly hostile to bare survival. Sam is underemployed, but he’s good in bed and in the kitchen, so Eleanor floats the bills for most of the story. They are very much in love, though they are smart enough to be justifiably terrified by the world around them.
The story is presented by a sort of omniscient narrator, who, along with the characters, tends to go on these elaborate sociopolitical tangents chronicling the decline of the country around them. These are actually surprisingly good, often the highlights of the entire production, because they are so (sadly) accurate that they create a nicely apocalyptic ambiance for the entire production. It’s a slow apocalypse, like the proverbial boiling of a frog, the water gets hotter slowly enough that people continue to tread it.
Sam especially is completely hampered by college loans, so there’s much discussion of that. But there are other things, like race, politics, etc. And while you may disagree with the novel’s distinctly socialism take on them, the facts are undeniably there for you to draw your own depressing conclusions. Or not, presumably, since we do live in the country that has a peculiar disdain for facts.
The thing with this novel is that normally I likely would find it tediously precocious, over-stylized, over-done (and there's way too much about food here, it's a freaking cooking show of a book), and yet there’s something so nice and refreshing and relatable about having someone be terrified and appalled by the state of things the way one, by all rights, ought to be…that it kind of acts as the book’s saving grace.
Overall, from a purely fictional perspective this may not be the greatest novel and it certainly won’t be to everyone’s liking, although it’s terribly hip and is sure to gather acclaim that way, but it is undeniably an excellent representation of its time and its generation and on that merit alone it works very nicely. The end of the world is nigh, don’t be alone, find someone to love. Find a book to read. Thanks Netgalley.
This and more at https://advancetheplot.weebly.com/
May 6, 2022
“A love story set in a bad dream about America.” It read like a bad dream and I’m very exhausted. Learned some cool recipes though?
December 17, 2022
2.75 stars
While I appreciate the craftsmanship, I can't say I enjoy the experience, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World is a complete, unapologetic artistic expression, an absurdist, stream of consciousness fantasy about a couple as their city is on the brim of a nuclear attack. The writing fully captures the quiet mundane of 2 individuals comfortably in love (every time a character cooks, the story would go on a lengthy tangent describing the recipe, the ingredient, and the flavor—so convincingly I would salivate), and the bleakest humor (like a fallout shelter converted into a rent control apartment, in addition to topics ranging from police brutality, corruption, to climate change). In term of execution, this novel 100% delivers.
The issue lies with me as the reader; this is simply not the type of storytelling I resonate with. I can appreciate the nonlinear, scatterbrain progression much more, has it been a 100-page novella. At almost 300 pages, my attention drifts very quickly without a concrete plot or relatable characters to latch on to. I can totally see this being right up someone else's alley: extremely literary, and one can really dig deep decoding its wordsmith, symbolism, historical reference, and tonal juxtaposition.
I'm well aware I'm pretty basic when it comes to reading for entertainment, give me a gripping story with some stylistic flourishes and I'm sold. Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World is a little too highbrow and intellectual for me—I 'get' it to enjoy it in small dosage, but as a novel it feels too much like I'm being challenged to see if I'm smart enough for it.
**This ARC was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Much appreciated!**
While I appreciate the craftsmanship, I can't say I enjoy the experience, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World is a complete, unapologetic artistic expression, an absurdist, stream of consciousness fantasy about a couple as their city is on the brim of a nuclear attack. The writing fully captures the quiet mundane of 2 individuals comfortably in love (every time a character cooks, the story would go on a lengthy tangent describing the recipe, the ingredient, and the flavor—so convincingly I would salivate), and the bleakest humor (like a fallout shelter converted into a rent control apartment, in addition to topics ranging from police brutality, corruption, to climate change). In term of execution, this novel 100% delivers.
The issue lies with me as the reader; this is simply not the type of storytelling I resonate with. I can appreciate the nonlinear, scatterbrain progression much more, has it been a 100-page novella. At almost 300 pages, my attention drifts very quickly without a concrete plot or relatable characters to latch on to. I can totally see this being right up someone else's alley: extremely literary, and one can really dig deep decoding its wordsmith, symbolism, historical reference, and tonal juxtaposition.
I'm well aware I'm pretty basic when it comes to reading for entertainment, give me a gripping story with some stylistic flourishes and I'm sold. Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World is a little too highbrow and intellectual for me—I 'get' it to enjoy it in small dosage, but as a novel it feels too much like I'm being challenged to see if I'm smart enough for it.
**This ARC was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Much appreciated!**
October 27, 2021
In Sasha Fletcher's Brooklyn, the world is hurtling toward its imminent doom — or has it always been? The end times seem to go on forever in this Brooklyn, where daily life is underscored by constant foreboding and a distinct sense of doom. Despite the madness of the world, humanity carries on as usual. At the center of this story are Sam and Eleanor, a perfectly normal couple whose love feels like a beacon of light in the chaotic world that Fletcher describes. The absurdity and tragedy of living in the present collide brilliantly with an audacious sort of hope and joy that feel vulnerable and radical in the face of something so all-consuming. Fletcher's debut is exquisite and big-hearted, showcasing his an acute sensitivity to the world and all its possibilities.
November 8, 2021
I am not sure I can even describe it. It's like nothing I have ever read but what a "nothing it is! Realistic, harrowing, sensitive, just out of this world.
April 15, 2022
I think this is my favorite book that I’ve read in the last 3-4 years. The modern world is absolutely absurd. “I just want to know how tomorrow is going to be any different if we still can’t agree on what happened yesterday over three hundred years later. You know?”
December 12, 2022
I finished this book and burst into tears.
February 13, 2023
The right book at the right time!!!! I felt comforted and loved which is kinda weird because none of my romantic relationships gave me that feeling before. Ok I’m not gonna trauma dump.
Never read a narration so unique. I don’t think this book is for everyone nor does it aim to be. Set in an alternative America but with the same social inequalities dictating people’s lives.
Sensitive, poetic, delicate and witty. Cook it up and serve!
(Also I bookmarked all of the recipes in the book for future dinner adventures and you should too)
I will be back for a fuller review
Never read a narration so unique. I don’t think this book is for everyone nor does it aim to be. Set in an alternative America but with the same social inequalities dictating people’s lives.
Sensitive, poetic, delicate and witty. Cook it up and serve!
(Also I bookmarked all of the recipes in the book for future dinner adventures and you should too)
I will be back for a fuller review
didntfinish-yet
January 16, 2023Ahhh it's such a bummer to admit that I'm not going to finish this book (....yet, but probably ever). I bought it honestly for that wild cover plus the Daniel Handler endorsement -- and for awhile I was really overjoyed with it. It's got the same digressive, manic meanderings of Handler's books, the same tone of strangeness and beauty, the same rejection of standard pacing and plotting. It sounds like this:
At first I was underlining all these phrases, bracketing all these paragraphs, rolling around in his lavishly lovely bizarre language. I mean I googled the author three pages in so I knew this was written by a poet, and I was really thrilled to have that electric feeling of page after page of lush, frothy weirdness.
But the thing with Daniel Handler is that his frenetic gorgeousness is always going somewhere. Often you can't tell where for a long time, but you trust him to take you there even if it doesn't make any sense until you arrive. With Sasha Fletcher... well I'm 90 pages in and where we are is: Sam and Eleanor love each other very much, Sam is unemployed and very guilty about it and cooks a lot, there are lots of angels and cops and the world keeps ending, a nuke might be aimed at New York, Eleanor's job is pretty awful, they have some friends going through a breakup, the world is covered with snow.
It feels like all we have is the zaniness, and none of the action; all of the strangely colored, sugar-spun frosting, but none of the actual cake. It's so pretty, and so strange, but so, I think, ultimately, empty. : (
It's a hundred years later, the clouds are gone, everything's on fire, and the air's fucked. For the next hundred years, hurricanes the size of Texas rip across the continent, spitting up the boiling ocean and the rotting husks of everything that ever died all over your lawns. A thousand years later, birds show up. They grow bigger and bigger and bigger. Ten thousand years later their wingspans are the size of houses. They tear at the earth, and they eat up your dreams, and they weep. You can track the promises we made to each other each time we crawled out of the sea whenever you look to the sky. Next time will be so different.
At first I was underlining all these phrases, bracketing all these paragraphs, rolling around in his lavishly lovely bizarre language. I mean I googled the author three pages in so I knew this was written by a poet, and I was really thrilled to have that electric feeling of page after page of lush, frothy weirdness.
But the thing with Daniel Handler is that his frenetic gorgeousness is always going somewhere. Often you can't tell where for a long time, but you trust him to take you there even if it doesn't make any sense until you arrive. With Sasha Fletcher... well I'm 90 pages in and where we are is: Sam and Eleanor love each other very much, Sam is unemployed and very guilty about it and cooks a lot, there are lots of angels and cops and the world keeps ending, a nuke might be aimed at New York, Eleanor's job is pretty awful, they have some friends going through a breakup, the world is covered with snow.
It feels like all we have is the zaniness, and none of the action; all of the strangely colored, sugar-spun frosting, but none of the actual cake. It's so pretty, and so strange, but so, I think, ultimately, empty. : (
December 19, 2022
"sam," said eleanor, in the middle of the night, "have you noticed that the world keeps getting stranger?"
this book so totally immersed me in its world (partly because im also living it) that my inner monologue took on the jagged-heart-string prose of the author. it's like holding a big stuffed animal, tears streaking across your face, as you hurtle towards a brick wall at the end of space-time like a snotty little beautiful comet. plus the news and angels. the catharsis (if you can call it that?) of the ending really filled my chest cavity with the whole spectrum of human emotions. a lot of this book was underlined with heart on fire emojis doodled in the margins :,)
my favorite passage/the thesis??:
"i know that i've been just bludgeoning you with sadness this deep into a love story, but i really dont know what to do...it has been pointed out to me that the past few passages have added up to a little bit of misery, and I'm really sorry about that, but that's what America can do to you! The news doesn't let up, and neither will I! That's my promise to you. That and the fact that I will love you until the end of the world"
anyways, thanks sasha! sorry life sucks but is also amazing!
this book so totally immersed me in its world (partly because im also living it) that my inner monologue took on the jagged-heart-string prose of the author. it's like holding a big stuffed animal, tears streaking across your face, as you hurtle towards a brick wall at the end of space-time like a snotty little beautiful comet. plus the news and angels. the catharsis (if you can call it that?) of the ending really filled my chest cavity with the whole spectrum of human emotions. a lot of this book was underlined with heart on fire emojis doodled in the margins :,)
my favorite passage/the thesis??:
"i know that i've been just bludgeoning you with sadness this deep into a love story, but i really dont know what to do...it has been pointed out to me that the past few passages have added up to a little bit of misery, and I'm really sorry about that, but that's what America can do to you! The news doesn't let up, and neither will I! That's my promise to you. That and the fact that I will love you until the end of the world"
anyways, thanks sasha! sorry life sucks but is also amazing!
January 31, 2024
I will issue a caveat here: as a certified Gen X-er who retreats a little further into the obscure comforts of 17th-century British literature practically by the day, I am not what might be called the "target" "audience" for this slim fever dream of a novel. This feels important because Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World is, in some essential way, deeply of its moment and its cultural and social niche. A surreal parable about a millennial couple scrambling to survive a fractured, apocalyptic cityscape, it practically vibrates with the panicky anxiety of the Brooklyn precariat ca. 2020. (There is no overt reference to the pandemic, but it an odd and unquantifiable way, it seems very in tune with the claustrophobia and despair of our recent ordeal-in-common.) Sasha Fletcher's prose has a jumpy, onrushing energy, the sound of people at the very end of their rope; whatever else you say about it, the author's voice is utterly distinctive. Underneath the whirling sense of menace is a fragile sweetness that feels, too, very millennial. The neo-Art Deco cover is by my friend and colleague Beste M. Dogan.
March 31, 2022
WTF did I just read but also yes/wow/amazing/I will think about this book at least once a week for the rest of my life
Want to read
February 4, 2025one hell of a title.
isn't that what we are all desperately, internally screaming for?
isn't that what we are all desperately, internally screaming for?
November 26, 2022
Not sure I understand it but it made me feel something
May 14, 2023
I just know so many people will read this book and not finish it or just roll there eyes but hear me out this just WORKED for me
what is the genre that takes the gravity of life and balances it with love and hope without making hope and love sound silly or flippant while also showing how dark and insidious life is like anthropocene reviewed and this? whatever it is that is my favorite genre
this book is a stream of consciousness that is feral, wild, unrelenting, absurd, stressful, informative, and full of character. reading it while on a trip because of the death of a family member was intense but also somehow relevant and centering.
I didn't have anything to annotate with so I dog eared almost every page. sorry, sasha fletcher for almost folding ur entire book in half but thank u for writing this I really appreciate it
also ty to barnes and noble for having this on display front cover our bc if they hadn't I would have never found it or bought it on a whim
sorry if this review makes no sense I am so jetlagged lmao
what is the genre that takes the gravity of life and balances it with love and hope without making hope and love sound silly or flippant while also showing how dark and insidious life is like anthropocene reviewed and this? whatever it is that is my favorite genre
this book is a stream of consciousness that is feral, wild, unrelenting, absurd, stressful, informative, and full of character. reading it while on a trip because of the death of a family member was intense but also somehow relevant and centering.
I didn't have anything to annotate with so I dog eared almost every page. sorry, sasha fletcher for almost folding ur entire book in half but thank u for writing this I really appreciate it
also ty to barnes and noble for having this on display front cover our bc if they hadn't I would have never found it or bought it on a whim
sorry if this review makes no sense I am so jetlagged lmao
June 20, 2022
took me a while to get to collating my thoughts. this book reads like a fever dream and also mirror my thought processes- everything jumps time, space, and reason. i've been diving into more experimental writing over the past two years and i think this is one of the most effective train of thought no punctuation pure exuberance books to cross my path. picked it up on a whim because of the cover and title and boy am i i happy i did. as i write this i crushed a mosquito and it left a bloody trail and for a split second i felt a little awful. i think this book is about those split seconds of feeling collective enough to think about sympathizing with everything. and then going right back to thinking about debt dinner diatribes doom death but actually no one is a true cynic. really grounds itself in the knowledge that sometimes you get to come home to a partner who likes to cook for you and you get to watch cars outside your studio apartment window and nothing else matters.
March 23, 2022
At first I read over half the book in one sitting, hoping that it would lead somewhere but the narrative of the story is extremely exhausting and I ended up skimming the rest of the book days later, excited to just be finished with it. I understand most of the metaphors presented in the book but it was still so repetitive and negative, despite all of the “I love yous”
April 30, 2022
“It was easy and it was beautiful and if you had a cast iron skillet it was even better.”
November 21, 2022
It just doesn’t stop
March 20, 2022
Like many others have mentioned, this book is hard to describe and unlike anything I’ve ever read. It is both beautiful and gut-wrenching. Though surreal, it tells many truths about America and the world at large, which honestly felt so cathartic because someone finally fucking gets it!!!!
I’ll be thinking about this one for a very long time. Also, the recipes described sounded delicious and I’ll absolutely be making some of them!
I’ll be thinking about this one for a very long time. Also, the recipes described sounded delicious and I’ll absolutely be making some of them!
January 12, 2023
loved loved loved this book! i was confused, amazed, baffled. i laughed so hard and also learned a lot. highly recommend this book!!
April 13, 2022
Love, love, love, LOVED this. A true poet's novel, gorgeous stream-of-consciousness writing on every page with the delightful treat of labor history and kooky apocalypse nonsense. It's funny, it's quirky, it's sweet, it's disarming, and it never loses the thread of the central love story. The world is crashing down around us and we still have love. I will hold onto this one for a long time. Gorgeous work and I want to read a thousand more things like it. Also I love the cover.
Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher for the free ebook in exchange for an honest review.
Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher for the free ebook in exchange for an honest review.
March 22, 2022
I received a free copy of this book via Goodreads. Thankfully, I didn't pay for it. What a meandering mess, typos and all. The author tried to be profound, but came across as nonsensical. The only reason I finished it was to see just how bad it could get. It did not disappoint
October 20, 2022
Weird. DNE.
December 11, 2022
(Actual: 4.5⭐️) The end of the world is upon us! Then again, hasn’t it always? Haven’t we always just been— I don’t know, hurtling toward something that may or may not look like imminent doom? Think about it. And yet, despite this looming sense of dread that life as we know it could change for better or for worse at any given moment…. we continue on, living & loving anyway.
𝘉𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘔𝘦 is something…. else. Something different. I genuinely don’t know how to describe this book other than to say it’s a very unique reading experience for sure. It’s about a world that perhaps isn’t too far off from our own, a dystopian tale that is as laughably absurd as it is flinchingly accurate (or is it the other way around)? And somewhere amidst all of the chaos and all of the mundaneness, we have Sam & Eleanor. Eleanor & Sam. And they’re simply just 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦. Even if the world is ending. Even 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭. And isn’t that just a beautiful thing? To experience a love that transcends. A love that makes even the bleakest feel bearable.
This book won’t be for everyone. It’s very abstractly character-driven, with little to no actual plot. The writing style also mostly reads like an endless stream of consciousness— which yes, can sometimes get real exhausting. I will admit that it can be a bit confusing to follow at first, but once you really get into the style of it all…. Personally, I think it’s beautifully written. Poetic, even. I can definitely appreciate what Fletcher is trying to do here, and I do think he is successful. I admire his creativity & respect the risks he must have taken in his writing in order to make his vision come to life.
🔖 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: This story feels like something that would have come from the minds behind the 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐞 book/podcast— which 14/10, highly recommend; it’s a real fun ride filled w plenty of dark humor, surrealism, and just the right amount of creepiness. If this book piques your interest, def check out #WTNV also!
𝘉𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘔𝘦 is something…. else. Something different. I genuinely don’t know how to describe this book other than to say it’s a very unique reading experience for sure. It’s about a world that perhaps isn’t too far off from our own, a dystopian tale that is as laughably absurd as it is flinchingly accurate (or is it the other way around)? And somewhere amidst all of the chaos and all of the mundaneness, we have Sam & Eleanor. Eleanor & Sam. And they’re simply just 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦. Even if the world is ending. Even 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭. And isn’t that just a beautiful thing? To experience a love that transcends. A love that makes even the bleakest feel bearable.
This book won’t be for everyone. It’s very abstractly character-driven, with little to no actual plot. The writing style also mostly reads like an endless stream of consciousness— which yes, can sometimes get real exhausting. I will admit that it can be a bit confusing to follow at first, but once you really get into the style of it all…. Personally, I think it’s beautifully written. Poetic, even. I can definitely appreciate what Fletcher is trying to do here, and I do think he is successful. I admire his creativity & respect the risks he must have taken in his writing in order to make his vision come to life.
🔖 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: This story feels like something that would have come from the minds behind the 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐞 book/podcast— which 14/10, highly recommend; it’s a real fun ride filled w plenty of dark humor, surrealism, and just the right amount of creepiness. If this book piques your interest, def check out #WTNV also!
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