The Other Valley: The thrilling, unputdownable time-travel love story Scott Alexander Howard
I Cheerfully Refuse
- Authors
- Publisher
Barnes & Noble's April Book Club Pick An Amazon Top 10 Editors' Pick A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 from Literary Hub
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved musician taking to Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved bookselling wife. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amid the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humour, generous strangers and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. As his essentially guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy's private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake.
A rollicking narrative in the most evocative of settings, I Cheerfully Refuse is a symphony against despair and a rallying cry for the future.
© 2024 Grove Press UK (Ebook): 9781804710838
Release date
Ebook: 1 August 2024
Others also enjoyed ...
- A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing: A Novel Alice Evelyn Yang
- Death of the Author: A Novel Nnedi Okorafor
- The Merge: A Novel Grace Walker
- Exit Party: the instant Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Station Eleven Emily St John Mandel
- The Blueprint: A Novel Rae Giana Rashad
- Flux: A Novel Jinwoo Chong
- The Dream Hotel: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 Laila Lalami
- Saltcrop Yume Kitasei
- Audition for the Fox Martin Cahill
- Cursed Daughters Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Orpheus Builds a Girl Heather Parry
- Hum: Winner of the Climate Fiction Prize 2026 Helen Phillips
- Dengue Boy Michel Nieva
- Content Warning: Everything Akwaeke Emezi
- Sky Full of Elephants Cebo Campbell
- The Last of Earth Deepa Anappara
- And Then She Fell: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2024 Alicia Elliott
- The Age of Calamities Senaa Ahmad
- Someone to Watch Over You Kumi Kimura
- Riot Baby Tochi Onyebuchi
- Boring Asian Female: An Addictive Debut about Obsession, Identity and the Dark Side of Success in a World That Demands You Stand Out Canwen Xu
- I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness: A Novel Irene Solà
- The Deep Sky Yume Kitasei
- Sublimation: 'A mind bending thriller' - R. F. KUANG, author of Yellowface and Katabasis Isabel J. Kim
- I Love You Don't Die: A Novel Jade Song
- Toward Eternity: A Novel Anton Hur
- Moderation: LISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 Elaine Castillo
- Lucky Day Chuck Tingle
- Celestial Lights Cecile Pin
- Pet Catherine Chidgey
- Awake in the Floating City: 'An astonishing work of art...This is the kind of book that changes you, that leaves you seeing more vividly, and living more fully, in its wake' Rachel Khong Susanna Kwan
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw
- Tilt Emma Pattee
- Friday Black: Stories Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman: A Novel Deesha Philyaw
- Portalmania: Stories Debbie Urbanski
- The Annual Migration of Clouds Premee Mohamed
- Mrutyunjay Bhag 1 - Karn Shivaji Sawant
- Shriman Yogi Ranjit Desai
- URAKKAPPISHACH: ഉറക്കപ്പിശാച് S P SARATH
- October Junction Divya Prakash Dubey
- Yugandhar Shivaji Sawant
- Kanthamalacharitham Vishnu M C
- Chhava Prakaran 1 Shivaji Sawant
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K. Rowling
- Gunahon ka Devta Dharmveer Bharti
- Francis Itticora T D Ramakrishnan
- Ravan Raja Rakshsancha Sharad Tandale
- Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life Francesc Miralles, Hector Garcia
- Lok Maze Sangati Sharad Pawar
- Bangarwadi Vyankatesh Madgulkar
- The Secret Rhonda Byrne
