Awake in the Floating City
By Susanna Kwan
By Susanna Kwan
By Susanna Kwan
By Susanna Kwan
By Susanna Kwan
By Susanna Kwan
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$28.00
May 13, 2025 | ISBN 9780593701409
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May 13, 2025 | ISBN 9780593701416
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May 13, 2025 | ISBN 9798217066414
540 Minutes
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Praise
“Awake in the Floating City is an astonishing work of art, rich with attention, patience, and love: the rare elegy that hums with hope, and makes the strongest case I’ve ever read for remembering the people and places that matter to us. Kwan’s prose pulses with uncommon attention to the natural world, attuned to both its beauty and devastation. This is the kind of book that changes you, that leaves you seeing more vividly, and living more fully, in its wake.”
—Rachel Khong, author of Real Americans
“What book is like this? What post-apocalyptic vision dares be so gorgeous, lush, struck with humor and light, so warm and caring and care-taking? Luminous, wise, Susanna Kwan’s story of a flooded future San Francisco expands the known world, making room within its unbearable devastation for beauty, compassion, and love. This book is a labor undertaken by an imagination able to mourn and celebrate in the same breath. An argument runs through it, like a bright live wire, that to attend to loss—to hold the dying world’s hand and say, ‘I’m here’—is a way to be fully alive. And so it is an argument for life.”
—Meng Jin, author of Little Gods
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