"...Kira Jane Buxton’s Hollow Kingdom, has been sold to AMC for its first animated TV series."
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“It's an adventure lit by strange myths, brand names, television and smartphone screens, a fable with teeth and claws about animals making new lives amongst the ruins of humanity... S.T. the irrepressible, cursing crow is my new favourite apocalyptic hero.”
- Helen Macdonald
New York Times bestselling author of
H Is for Hawk
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"Kira Jane Buxton’s voice is fresh, like a newly dug grave, but so joyful and honest
you’ll laugh out loud, and then check to make sure you haven’t lost an eyeball."
- Jamie Ford
New York Times bestselling author of
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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“Everything you're hearing about Kira Jane Buxton's Hollow Kingdom--that it's wildly original and inventive, funny and profane--is wonderfully true. But even better, this book is timely, smart, movingly written, and beautifully concluded.”
- Laurie Frankel
New York Times bestselling author of
This Is How It Always Is
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“A plucky hero, a boisterous tale, startling prose, and eerie events combine for a thoroughly enjoyable account of the end of the world as we know it. The Secret Life Of Pets meets The Walking Dead.”
- Karen Joy Fowler
PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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"Hollow Kingdom offers a bird's-eye view of the apocalypse we all want and need... A dazzling, wholly original debut, revealing the great paradox of humanity’s fatal flaws and resilient spirit.”
- Mona Awad
author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Bunny
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"Full of unforgettable humor, insight and beauty."
- Ruth Ozeki
nationally bestselling author of
A Tale for the Time Being
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“A hilariously exuberant and heart bursting fable for our times.”
- Jennie Shortridge
bestselling author of Love Water Memory
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"With humor and a style that brings to mind Tom Robbins and Karen Russell,
Buxton's debut is heartwarming and heart stopping, hilarious and tragic.”
- Amy Poeppel
author of Limelight and Small Admissions
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“It turns you upside down and makes you realize that you
recognize the world from that vantage point.”
- Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
author of Shadow Child
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"This book is a triumphant feat of imagination, and it had me believing that the
bonds we’ve formed with our pets might help them save us after all."
- Zoe Zolbrod
author of The Telling