Mudlark

“Mudlark is absolutely hypnotic—a page-turning tale of a dark, near-future New York, told with all the lyrical grace of the best literary fiction. I was completely swept away.”—Justin Cronin, New York Times bestselling author of The Ferryman

“Combines the spellbinding worldbuilding of Staion Eleven with a rock-and-roll heart . . . A luscious, awe-inspiring, and gorgeously written novel about love and how it will save us, no matter what the future holds.”—Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters

“Intricate, propulsive, thoughtful, beautiful . . . Mudlark does it all. It’s a book about mothers, daughters, and rock-and-roll; about who leaves and what is left behind; about what can be saved from a damaged world we haven’t loved enough. It is an amazing book that takes readers to all sorts of depths—full of wonders [and] gorgeously written.”—Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Hero of This Book

“A tour de force . . . a feminist Odyssey through a world as dazzling as it is dark, as strange as it is familiar, a story about the future but also about what it is to be alive now: a mother, a child, a person trying to find their way home on a planet that has been irrevocably altered. I churned through the pages, grateful that this marvelous book has been written.”—Louisa Hall, author of Reproduction

“A stunner . . . audaciously imaginative, brutally tender, a love letter and a cautionary tale. Mary Helen Specht has conjured a frightening, vivid and profoundly humane exploration of resilience amid the ruins.”—Jennifer Dubois, author of The Last Language