The Gone Dead: A Novel NBLNB it just might work

it just might work

A compelling blend of poetry

Walk with him up snowy mountains where he contemplates ending his own life

Xiomara refuses to be silent

and solving the climate crisis in decidedly post-dystopian worlds

The Gone Dead: A Novel NBLNB it just might workBy: Chanelle Benz An electrifying first novel from a riveting new voice in American fiction (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her fathers life and death Billie James inheritance isnt much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was