TNQ 29 | How to Build a Home for the End of the World

The Novel Queers

It's the end of the world as we know it, and we feel fine!
And that's because we're going on an apocalypse road trip with our advance copy of Keely Shinners' How to Build a Home at the End of the World.
(And all our favorite listeners, of course. Pass the AUX.)
Finding her home of Fox Lake has run dry, Mary-Beth Sorensen sets out on a road trip from Chicago to LA to save the girl she loves. Accompanied by her father, Donny, she struggles to find her place in a world that is always, and has always been, ending.
How does one build a home at the end of the world?
Sweetness: Water (sweet when you need it to be)
Citrus: Lemon, but barely
Gore: Profound, check TW pls
Trigger Warning: dystopia typical awfulness, violence, abuse, anarchy, attempted suicide, suicide by doctor, forced medical procedures, body horror, death, death of parent, death of grandparent, corpse, funeral, burial, chronic illness, forced work camp, slavery, whipping, US politics, guns, robbery, armed robbery, hallucinations, infection, amateur amputation, mental decline of a parent, severe mental illness, severe physical illness, lack of medical care, advanced liver disease, parental separation, cults, politics, and lack of sanitation
Mentions of food, alcohol, drugs, vomit, cancer, eating unpleasant things, Jonestown, mouth horror, missing tooth, eye horror, a living morgue, and uncertainty