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WINNER OF THE 2024 URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE
CO-WINNER OF THE 2022 NOVEL PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOK AWARD
This third perspective on myself is disconcerting.
The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife.…
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1 author picked It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book was a completely random find that attracted me with its cover and size. And then I started reading it, and it blew me away.
It's a deceptively simple story of longing for what is gone, set in a world overtaken by zombies, and told from a very personal, very intimate perspective of an unusually sentient zombie.
Being hungry is the driving force here; hungry for a love done no longer there, for the shared past and the future that could have been, for a connection ... and yes, for flesh.
The real standout here is the writing -…
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