{"title":"Amy Debellis","description":"Amy DeBellis is the author of the novel All Our Tomorrows. Her writing has been published in journals including X-R-A-Y, Pithead Chapel, HAD, Fractured, Ghost Parachute, Monkeybicycle, Atticus Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere.Originally from New York City, she earned a BA in English from NYU. She has Long Covid and ME\/CFS and is passionate about raising awareness for chronic illnesses. She is represented by Aurora Fernandez at Trident Media Group.","products":[{"product_id":"methuselah-paperback","title":"Methuselah - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney, \u003cem\u003eMethuselah\u003c\/em\u003e offers a raw and haunting glimpse into our collective lonelinesses, anxieties, and desires.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in alternating chapters that braid the past with the near-present, Methuselah follows Tessa as she shuns college and sets out on the road with her doom metal band, a ragtag group called Pestilential Harbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when she discovers that one of the members has been keeping an explosive secret, the band splinters. Tessa settles in San Diego, drifting through her twenties as love--and meaningful connections with other people--seems just out of reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs droughts and wildfires sweep her home state, she obsessively keeps tabs on the safety of a 4,000-year-old bristlecone pine tree named Methuselah (this means repeatedly pressing return on a Google search of \"Is Methuselah still alive?\"). But as her grandmother slides into dementia, and the natural world feels more distant than ever, it will take more than refreshing a webpage to keep Tessa's hope in the future alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTime folds in on itself, each chapter offering a new vantage point: from a hallucinogenic New Year's Eve party to a dust-white Bronx apartment to a ghost town in the Mojave Desert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMethuselah is a meditation on time, memory, family history, and what it means to live in an increasingly fast-paced and disconnected world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Amy DeBellis writes with ferocious conviction for truth. This is what allows her fiction to unabashedly dissect the lives of her characters, peeling back skin and sinew to expose the raw underbelly of desire, insecurity, and rebellion. 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Too young to remember life before the iPhone 4, they think the real world was destroyed long before they were born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanet is an underpaid gig therapist who spends her time as a mental health matchmaker, responding to grievance letters from faceless online avatars. Anna is a model-turned-sugar-baby who dissociates during dates with her aging daddy, hoping to save enough not for a Birkin bag, but for the water wars of the near future. And Gemma is a freshman at NYU who aspires to become an influencer, but is so haunted by a recent loss that she can't even film one video.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharp, incisive, and sparkling with dark humor, this is a novel for the age of the doomer generation. 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