A Finalist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker"Pol Guasch must be one of the best young writers working today. This novel is entirely resolute and clear-hearted." —Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X"Profoundly strange and beautiful, formally bold and lyrically elevated." —The Guardian...

In a rapidly deteriorating world, two best friends pursue a future worth believing in, in this second novel from “one of the best young writers working today” (Catherine Lacey).When Rita and Líton meet at a party, they quickly form a bond that will indelibly shape their lives. Theirs is not an easy world: most wildlife is extinct and the earth is tormented by drought and floods; the last vestiges of natural life are kept under lock and key in a mysterious greenhous...

Pol Guasch

Named one of the best books of the year by the New YorkerSurvival is a moral quandary in this otherworldly debut charting forbidden love during an apocalypse.In a near future devastated by war and natural disaster, a young man and his mother cling to survival at the edge of a forest. The young man spends his days taking care of the home and exchanging letters with his lover, Boris, who lives in a city on the other side of the woods...