MacArthur Park Ace Victoria Schwab creates her own

Victoria Schwab creates her own dark metropolis

Patrick's eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility

subversive

Blackwell takes a tumble down the grand staircase of her spooky mansion

but also about what it means to be a writer at any time in history

MacArthur Park Ace Victoria Schwab creates her ownBy: Andrew Durbin Debut novel that navigates disaster, belonging, pre apocalypse, the cultural public & psychic devastation. After Hurricane Sandy, Nick Fowler, a writer, stranded alone in a Manhattan apartment without power, begins to contemplate disaster. Months later, at an artist residency in upstate New York, Nick finds his subject in disaster itself and the communities shaped by it, where crisis animates both hope and denial, unacknowledged