Levitations

Nothing usually happens in the small town of Leefield, New England. A post-industrial wasteland populated by burnouts and weirdos, its only point of interest is an asteroid buried in its earth: once the centre of a new-age cult and now the site of a shady corporate mine. It's here that a local boy disappears, and his best friend has a bizarre and terrifying experience: he starts levitating.As the town is flooded by investors, grifters and conspiracy theorists obsessed with the mine's 'space rocks', opposing interpretations of the levitation collide. There's Durdo, the washed-up Marxist academic, who's set on harnessing this mysterious force; and Jem, a chain-smoking teenager in search of his lost friend, who's convinced the mine must be destroyed. In the middle of it all is Frankiette, a disillusioned activist who drifted into Leefield in search of change, only to come up against the same old problems in a world gone to hell.With an expansive vision that telescopes between celestial bodies and microscopic bugs, Levitations is an electrifyingly imaginative debut about the struggle for meaning in a dying world.

© 2027 ONE (Rafbók): 9781805338369

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Rafbók: 11 mars 2027