{"product_id":"famous-men-who-never-lived-isbn-9781951142285","title":"Famous Men Who Never Lived","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for a 2019 Sidewise Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Conceptually adventurous yet full of feeling. . . . smart, thought-provoking, and thoroughly enjoyable.” —Charles Yu, author of \u003ci\u003eInterior Chinatown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States—an alternate timeline, somewhere across the multiverse—she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others, like her partner, Vikram, attempt to assimilate, Hel refuses to reclaim her former career or create a new life. Instead, she obsessively rereads Vikram’s copy of \u003ci\u003eThe Pyronauts\u003c\/i\u003e—a science fiction masterwork in her world that now only exists as a single flimsy paperback—and becomes determined to create a museum dedicated to preserving the remaining artifacts and memories of her vanished culture.\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the refugees are unwelcome and Hel’s efforts are met with either indifference or hostility. And when the only copy of \u003ci\u003eThe Pyronauts\u003c\/i\u003e goes missing, Hel must decide how far she is willing to go to recover it and finally face her own anger, guilt, and grief over what she has truly lost. With \u003ci\u003eFamous Men Who Never Lived\u003c\/i\u003e, K Chess has created a compelling and inventive speculative work on what home means to those who have lost it forever.A beautifully written and conceived novel, and one whose message of empathy across lines of difference is much needed.—Tor.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEerie and ingenious. . . . Describes an impossible world in order to more clearly show us our own.—Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Dreamers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncredibly intriguing.—The Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePowerfully written.—Jo Walton, Tor.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpectacular.—Dana Spiotta, author of Innocents and Others\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA beautiful labyrinth of a novel—electric, formidable, and wildly moving.—Laura van den Berg, author of I Hold a Wolf by the Ears\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable.—A.V. Club, Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImpossible to forget.—Book Riot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs timely and powerfully written as it is jaw-droppingly imaginative.—Salon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA story about immigration wrapped inside a post-apocalyptic fable with multiple universes that also manages to be a meditation on art, fate, trauma, and loss.—The Millions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntriguing and fresh . . . a promising new voice in speculative fiction.—Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMagnificent. . . . An awesome and humbling literary achievement.—Foreword Reviews, Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImpressive.—Vol. 1 Brooklyn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA gripping and thought-provoking read.—Popular Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePowerful.—The Verge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStands among the best works of hybrid SF.—New York Journal of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe novel jumps off from a fascinating premise into strange and fertile territory. K Chess constructs not just one universe, but two, and delicately entangles them to create a rich, engrossing exploration of displacement, history, memory, of the past and the present. Conceptually adventurous yet full of feeling, \u003ci\u003eFamous Men Who Never Lived\u003c\/i\u003e is a smart, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable debut.\n—Charles Yu, author of Interior ChinatownK Chess is the author of short stories honored by the Nelson Algren Literary Award and the Pushcart Prize. She was a W. K. Rose Fellow, earned an MFA from Southern Illinois University, and currently teaches at GrubStreet. She lives with her wife in Providence, Rhode Island.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233162408165,"sku":"NP9781951142285","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781951142285.jpg?v=1767726704","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/famous-men-who-never-lived-isbn-9781951142285","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}