Jellyfish Dreaming - Paperback

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by D. K. McCutchen

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by D. K. McCutchen (Author)

"Jellyfish Dreaming is a head trip like nothing you've read, weaving together climate, genetics, gender, biology and dreams in such a way it's impossible to miss how they were always all one thing to begin with."

-- Michael J. DeLuca, author of Night Roll

This post-apocalyptic, post-gender, coming-of-age story pulses with plot twists and intrigue. It contemplates the tenacity of life and the capacity of hope, even when all seems lost.

On the cliffs above the Great Garbage Ocean, in a university's aging experimental facility, Jack floats in a tank of poisonous jellyfish. The 200-year-old intersex street kid remembers things nobody else does, from before the environmental catastrophes that erased the world as we know it.

Now, jellyfish and insects are food staples, and everyone is sterile. Everyone, that is, except for some of the town's orphaned survivors. Two of the University's researchers believe they are humanity's last hope.

Jack agrees to help, but then falls for his best friend, Joon - a tough, ageless "Warehouse kid" whose arrival complicates everything. As Jack's feelings for Joon grow, so does the danger around them. When old bigotries erupt into violence, Jack must scramble to protect those he loves from a madman and save a dying world. But at what cost?

Author Biography

After a decade of sailing the world with researchers in summer and assisting a glassblower in winter, D. K. McCutchen teaches writing for College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts, and is an Associate Director of the Junior Year Writing Program. Currently they live on a river with two brilliant daughters and a flightless Kiwi, and write LGBTQIA-friendly, gender-bender, post-apocalyptic speculative fiction.

Books include JELLYFISH DREAMING, winner of a Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize, and WHALE ROAD, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book and Pushcart nominee about chasing whales through the South Pacific. JELLYFISH DREAMING's companion novel, ELECTRIC ICE, winner of a Speculative Literature Foundation grant, will be released soon.

Number of Pages: 256

Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.8 x 5 IN

Publication Date: August 22, 2023

ISBN	9781948585750
Author	D. K. McCutchen
Publisher	Leapfrog Press
Genre	Young adult
Format	Paperback
Published	August 2023
Language	ENG- English
Pages	256
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Teens & young adults and Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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D.K. McCUTCHEN teaches writing for UMass Amherst's College of Natural Sciences. Publications include THE WHALE ROAD, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book & Pushcart nominee (creative non-fiction about sailing with whale researchers through the South Pacific to NZ), inclusion in several Fish Publishing Award anthologies for "The Glass Bitch," "April Fool & The Feministas," and "The Zen of Kakapo Poo," writings in Fourth Genre, Hayden's Ferry Review, Rosebud, Identity Theory, Lady Churchills' Rosebud Wristlett (LCRW), The Mossy Skull, and others. She currently writes hopeful, gender-bender- post-apocalyptic-speculative-fiction, including JELLYFISH DREAMING (JFD) a Leapfrog Gobal Fiction YA Prizewinner judged by Rosanne Parry (!), and Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist. The author lives on -- and swims in -- the cleanest watershed in Massachusetts with two brilliant daughters and a flightless Kiwi that followed her home from New Zealand (so she kept him).

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