Corey Fah Does Social Mobility (English Edition)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2024<BR>LONGLISTED FOR THE NOTA BENE PRIZE 2024<BR><BR>A radical, joyful novel from Goldsmiths Prize-winning author Isabel Waidner<BR><BR>In flight from a traumatic rural childhood, Corey Fah has come to earth in a one-bed council flat in the capital. Trapped, with partner Drew, in the limited world which late capitalism has allotted them, they are modestly happy but practically futureless.<BR><BR>Until, one day, Corey is offered a life-changing prize from out of the blue. Things are looking up - but as Corey soon finds, it's one thing winning a prize in life's lottery, and quite another being able to collect it - especially if you are a queer, working class immigrant with all of History working against you.<BR><BR>Corey Fah's pursuit of the elusive prize - and an escape from precarity - is a whirlwind, epic journey through the streets of the city and the time-loops of the past, written with boundless energy and invention.<BR><BR>Social mobility, in this radiant, radical novel, is never a simple step up the ladder, but a hopeful leap into the void.<BR><BR>Praise for Corey Fah Does Social Mobility:<BR><BR>'A head-spinning, mind-bending roller coaster of fun, horror, and subversion' Kamila Shamsie<BR><BR>'A radical, rebellious novel . . . [Waidner] brings a fresh lens to our troubled world' Observer<BR><BR>[The] writer everyone is talking about . . . and deservedly so' Bernardine Evaristo<BR><BR>'Filled with wickedly sharp commentary and well-aimed digs at hypocrisy and injustice' Times Literary Supplement