Beeindrucker Roman, in dem in einer Dystopie eine kleine Utopie entsteht, indem Menschen während einer Naturkatastrophe ein verlassenes Gebäude mit Luxuswohnungen besetzen und selbst verwalten. Eine der Protagonist*innen ist laut Selbstbezeichnung eine "kinda in-between, masc-femme, genderless, genderfuck, person." Und eine trans* Frau kommt ebenfalls vor.
Impressive novel about the creation of a small utopia in a dystopian world in which people occupy an abandoned building with luxury apartments during a natural disaster and manage it themselves. One of the protagonists is a trans* woman and another is a “kinda in-between, masc-femme, genderless, genderfuck, person” according to her self-description.
Verlagsbeschreibung:
In a near-future New York City in which both global warming and a tremendous economic divide are making the city unlivable for many, a huge superstorm hits, leaving behind only those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out. Makayla is a twenty-four-year-old woman who works at the convenience store chain that’s taken over the city. Jesse, an eighteen-year-old, genderqueer, anarchist punk lives in an abandoned IRT station in the Bronx. Their paths cross in the aftermath of the storm when they, along with others devastated by the loss of their homes, carve out a small sanctuary in an abandoned luxury condo. In an attempt to bring hope to those who feel forsaken, an unnamed, mysterious street artist begins graffitiing colorful murals along the sides of buildings. But the castaways of the storm aren’t the only ones who find beauty in the art. When the media begins broadcasting the emergence of the murals and one appears on the building Makayla, Jesse, and their friends are living in, it is only a matter of time before those who own the building come back to claim what is theirs. Alex DiFrancesco's All City is more than a novel, it’s a foreshadowing of the world to come.
Von Alex Di Francesco gibt es auch den Sammelband Transmutation mit Kurzgeschichten.
