Seek Immediate Shelter
£10.99
A funny, moving and compulsively readable debut novel about survival, hope and second chances after a false missile alert.
‘Propulsive and poetic… A masterful debut’
Jenny Tinghui Zhang, author of Superfan
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BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
One ordinary morning, in an unexceptional town, every mobile phone lights up with the same emergency alert.
In this compelling, darkly funny and moving debut novel, each of Vincent Yu’s utterly relatable, flawed characters is given a choice: in the face of mutually assured destruction, do we reach for grace and mercy or do we hold on to hate and fear?
Seventeen minutes later the town learns via text that it was a false alarm and the question changes. Can we forgive each other for what’s been said and done when the world didn’t actually end?
‘Vincent Yu is a writer of incredible grace and insight who understands that the best fiction is about trusting characters to reveal themselves under the right pressure… [Seek Immediate Shelter] is a profound work about connection and disconnection that left me reeling and wanting more. A daring, prodigious debut’
Brian Castleberry, author of The Californians and Nine Shiny Objects
‘Compelling and cinematic… Yu’s vivid and beautiful descriptions of these “difficult to like but easy to empathise with” characters display the skilfulness of this storyteller in full force’
Abraham Chang, author of 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers
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