Description: "Throughout, Kleeman writes expressively about place and the manifold ways our lives are shaped by our imperiled environment, foregrounding the slow-motion catastrophe of climate change and its attendant anxieties." -- Vulture "Because this is an Alexandra Kleeman novel, none of it goes where you think it's going to, but it's all so wildly entertaining and beautifully written that it really doesn't matter where you end up." -- Literary Hub "Written with tremendous verve and flair, Something New Under the Sun is both an urgent novel about our very near future and a deeply addictive pleasure. Constantly surprising and endlessly inventive, every page is saturated with wit, intelligence, and extraordinary prose. Kleeman is a phenomenon, one of the most brilliant and gifted writers at work today." --Katie Kitamura "With this novel, Alexandra Kleeman confirms her place as one of the major writers of her generation. Reading it is like looking at a familiar room through warped glass: What you perceive is distorted and unsettling while remaining curiously beautiful." --Esm Weijun Wang " Something New Under the Sun is a richly rendered ecological novel, characterized not only by how it sets the landscape but also by the fact that the landscape is quite often allowed to run the show. Kleeman is phenomenal when it comes to place writing. Like many of the characters in her book, I got lost inside her scene-setting, arid and wild, happy to let her drive me wherever her genius brain thought we should go. Kleeman is at her very best here. This is a book I'll be thinking about for years to come." --Kristen Arnett "Alexandra Kleeman expertly conjures California noir filtered through the ambient and not-so-ambient apocalypse." --Emma Cline "A magnificent and stunning novel, by turns hilarious, satirical, moving, and so very, very much what we need in these uncertain times." -Jeff VanderMeer "It's undeniably fun to watch Kleeman juggle genre, from mystery to domestic drama, from cli-fi to ghost story . . . An admirably eclectic take on environmental dystopia." --Kirkus Reviews

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