In a Perfect World - Tapa blanda

"IN A PERFECT WORLD reveals astonishing and tender insight into human nature while exposing a terrifying, yet believable, world I'd never before imagined. This story will grasp onto your heart before swiftly carrying you away."--Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties

"[Kasischke]writes with worldly-wise profundity and sudden beauty but also sly humor . . .We're helplessly drawn in by a slew of burning questions, with this one foremost: When can we expect a sequel...or is that nothing but a doomed hope?"--Elle

"Kasischke finds beauty amid the apocalypse in her timely seventh novel . . . Startling, sometimes violent images combine with strikingly dispassionate narration to create a fictional world where terror, beauty and chaos walk hand in hand."--Publishers Weekly

"This is a doomsday book in the form of a finely observed domestic drama, showing how dysfunctional relationships shift and soften in response to the looming menace . . . The reader may well come away with the odd, exhilarating feeling that a spell has both been cast and broken."--Los Angeles Times

"From its haunting opening image to its riveting end, this is a tale of beauty, resilience, love, sacrifice, and even grace found in the most unlikely of places. In a truly 'perfect world' every book I read would inspire me like this one."--Katrina Kittle, author of The Kindness of Strangers

Kasischke finds beauty amid the apocalypse in her timely seventh novel . . . Startling, sometimes violent images combine with strikingly dispassionate narration to create a fictional world where terror, beauty and chaos walk hand in hand. --Publishers Weekly"

From its haunting opening image to its riveting end, this is a tale of beauty, resilience, love, sacrifice, and even grace found in the most unlikely of places. In a truly perfect world every book I read would inspire me like this one. --Katrina Kittle, author of The Kindness of Strangers"

IN A PERFECT WORLD reveals astonishing and tender insight into human nature while exposing a terrifying, yet believable, world I d never before imagined. This story will grasp onto your heart before swiftly carrying you away. --Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties"

[Kasischke]writes with worldly-wise profundity and sudden beauty but also sly humor . . .We re helplessly drawn in by a slew of burning questions, with this one foremost: When can we expect a sequel or is that nothing but a doomed hope? --Elle"

This is a doomsday book in the form of a finely observed domestic drama, showing how dysfunctional relationships shift and soften in response to the looming menace . . . The reader may well come away with the odd, exhilarating feeling that a spell has both been cast and broken. --Los Angeles Times"

Former flight attendant Jiselle Dorn's idyllic family life as the wife of pilot Mark Dorn and the mother of two soon grows wearisome, since Mark is always away and her children are hostile, but nothing can prepare her for the threat of the Phoenix Flu, which endangers the very lives they have all imagined. Original. 35,000 first printing.