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Flat Earth: 'This novel will soon be in the hands of cool girls everywhere' The Times
Anika Jade Levy
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
From a sharp, sardonic new voice, an unforgettable debut novel about female friendship, sex, money, art and America - destined to become a cult classic
'Not to be missed' GQ
'Hypnotic' Financial Times
'Captivating' Daily Mail
'I couldn't stop reading it' Chris Kraus
Avery is flailing financially and emotionally. Struggling with graduate school and the collection of cultural reports she is supposed to be writing, she dates older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. In desperation, she takes a job at a right-wing dating app.
Meanwhile her wealthy best friend, Frances, drops out of grad school, gets married, and somehow still manages to finish an experimental documentary about rural isolation and right-wing conspiracy theories. Frances's triumphant return to New York as the toast of the art world sends Avery into a tailspin, pushing her to make a series of dangerous decisions.
Praise for Flat Earth: 'This novel will soon be in the hands of cool girls everywhere' The Times
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Strangely hypnotic ... crisp, pitiless prose - Financial Times
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A novel to be torn through and passed around and treasured
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A visionary satire, bitterly funny with traces of sweetness. I couldn't stop reading it
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Fierce, hungry, hurting, on fire. The prose in this book makes other books feel like dull knives
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In the tradition of Sheila Heti's How Should A Person Be? ... Captivating, fast, fun, devastating, insane, alarming, super modern
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If Mary Gaitskill and Renata Adler spent a weekend collaborating on a sequel to Elizabeth Hardwick's Sleepless Nights, maybe you'd have some precedent for Flat Earth. Anika Jade Levy's razor-thin, razor-sharp debut novel is unlike anything I've ever read before
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A novel of friendship and coming of age, a story of New York City and a story of America, and, above all, a story of the superpowers and pitfalls of femininity. This conspiratorial, poetic, and cool debut is a future cult classic from a literary rockstar
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