All City [electronic resource]
DiFrancesco, Alex2019
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All City is more than a novel, it's a foreshadowing of a world to come. In a near-future New York City ravaged by climate change and economic inequality, a superstorm hits, leaving behind only those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out. Among those who remain are twenty-four-year-old Makayla, who works in the city's most ubiquitous convenience store chain, and Jesse, an eighteen-year-old, genderqueer anarchist living in an abandoned IRT station in the Bronx. In the aftermath of the storm, Jesse joins Makayla's group of remainders in an abandoned luxury condo building, carving out a small sanctuary in the midst of a destroyed city. Meanwhile, mysterious, colorful murals begin to appear throughout NYC, bringing hope to the forsaken and left-behind. But the storm's castaways aren't the only ones who find beauty in the art: the media, having long abandoned the supposedly hopeless metropolis, "discovers" the emergence of the murals. When one appears on Makayla and Jesse's repurposed luxury condo, it is only a matter of time before the landlord class comes back to claim the city for themselves.
Main title:
All City [electronic resource] / Alex DiFrancesco
Author:
DiFrancesco, Alex, AuthorFlowers, Eboni, NarratorStevens, Eileen, NarratorMattler, Jayme, NarratorPabon, Timothy Andrés, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 2019
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Alex DiFrancesco has published fiction in the Carolina Quarterly, the New Ohio Review, and Monkeybicycle, and his nonfiction has appeared in the Washington Post, Tin House, Longreads, and Brevity. He was a finalist in Cosmonauts Avenue's inaugural nonfiction prize. DiFrancesco is also a skilled bread baker and pastry cook and a passionate activist and advocate.
ISBN:
9781094022840
Language:
English
BRN:
3369215
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