What: Much-beloved (by me, anyway) author Kate Atkinson takes a break from sharp, layered, wrenching novels to deliver a collection of sharp, layered, wrenching, loosely connected stories.
Comparable to: Atkinson shares with George Saunders the ability to create wildly inventive dystopias that manage to entertain and depress you at the same time.
Opening lines (almost): "Charlene and Trudi were in a food hall as vast as a small city. It smelled of chocolate and ripe cheese and raw meaty bacon but most of the food was too expensive to buy and some of it didn't look real."
You might not like it if: You believe the title. (Semi-spoiler: It might in fact be the end of the world.)
How to get it: Buyable, borrowable, Kindle-able.
Connections to previous Wreckage: Not the End of the World previously appeared during Personal Wreck Week (List #4).
Kate Atkinson has previously appeared many times, for Case Histories (Rec. #3) , One Good Turn (Rec. #69), Human Croquet (Rec. #137), When Will There Be Good News? (Rec. #192), Started Early, Took My Dog (Rec. #270), and Emotionally Weird (Rec. #282).
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