Books about fallout

Mini reviews of books about personal and social collapse.

It's Little Reviews time, and today we're talking about fallout: the space of personal crises in post-crucible societies. I've got four books on the docket, all of them book club picks:

• Harrow by Joy Williams, an ABC pick for June

• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, an ABC pick for July

• Space Invaders by Nona Fernández (trans. Natasha Wimmer), an ABC pick for June

• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, an original ABC pick from January, which we revisited in March

Here’s the full transcript if you’d like to read along.

xx, aa