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Seek Immediate Shelter

Selected for Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2026 - A brilliantly funny, compelling and award-winning bestseller

AvVincent Yu

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize 2026BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.One ordinary morning, in an unexceptional town, every mobile phone lights up with the same emergency alert.In this compelling, darkly funny and moving debut novel, each of Vincent Yu’s utterly relatable, flawed characters is given a choice: in the face of mutually assured destruction, do we reach for grace and mercy or do we hold on to hate and fear?Eighteen minutes later the town learns via text that it was a false alarm and the question changes. Can we forgive each other for what’s been said and done when the world didn’t actually end?

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-06
Mått:194 x 32 x 125 mm
Vikt:270 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Duckworth Books
ISBN:9780715656334

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Vincent Yu is the winner of the 2021 Ashley Bourne Prize for fiction from Ploughshares. His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly, Ninth Letter, Able Muse, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn and works as a sales manager at W.W. Norton/Liveright.

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'Propulsive and poetic, Vincent Yu's Seek Immediate Shelter explodes with characters at once sad and lonely, fierce and funny, selfish and selfless, all mirroring missiles themselves as they hurtle toward the consequences of their choices in the wake of a false missile alarm. This is a book that asks not so much what it means to be human, but to be a person - foibles, shame, desire, gluttony and all. A masterful debut' Jenny Tinghui Zhang, author of Superfan