When the Apocalypse Is Just Another Day
Briefly

Such events are useful because they are revelatory: they break open the order of things and show us what's inside.
Téa Obreht's third novel, 'The Morningside,' considers this possibility. It is not a post-apocalyptic novel but an undramatically mid-apocalyptic one, in which we find our narrator, an eleven-year-old refugee named Silvia, newly arrived in Island City, a stand-in for Manhattan...
Read at The New Yorker
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