{"product_id":"the-unraveling-isbn-9781645660309","title":"The Unraveling","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A wildly inventive, funny, and ultimately quite heartfelt novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Unraveling\u003c\/i\u003e is a chaotic romp of gender deconstruction packaged up in a groovy science-fictional coming-of-age tale.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eOtherwise Award Honor List | Longlist, British Science Fiction Award | \u003ci\u003eLocus \u003c\/i\u003eRecommended Reading List for 2021 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo much can be controlled in the future…but not a person’s heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the far-off future, Fift is a Staid-gendered youth just trying to figure out life in the bustling but rigid social system of Fullbelly. And, as if mastering zir three bodies and satisfying zir twelve parents weren’t enough to handle, Fift’s taboo relationship with Vail-gendered Shria is a controversy waiting to happen.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Fift and Shria wind up at the center of a scandal that sparks a multilayered Unraveling of society, Fift is torn between the safety of zir family and zir attraction to Shria, between social compliance and staying true to zir feelings . . . all while zir personal crises suddenly take on global significance. What’s a young Staid to do when the whole world is watching?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Rosenbaum brings warmth and humor to this thoughtful coming-of-age story, asking who utopias are meant for—and what can change when everyone has a voice. In a world vastly different from our own, \u003ci\u003eThe Unraveling\u003c\/i\u003e is bright with possibility, joining the ranks of innovative science fiction that challenges gender, society, and culture with an expansive and creative vision of what the future can be.★ “This beautifully written debut is a thorough, well-realized picture of a world with a radically different concept of gender and the body that nonetheless has its own forms of oppression. Rosenbaum's novel is essential reading for anyone interested not only in speculative fiction that plays with gender norms, but also in quality SF in general. Highly recommended.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBooklist\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] complex meditation on fame, taboo, gender, and social control . . . as mind-bending as it is satisfying.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wildly inventive, funny, and ultimately quite heartfelt novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Unraveling \u003c\/i\u003eis a chaotic romp of gender deconstruction packaged up in a groovy science-fictional coming-of-age tale.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A stunning far-future tale of what families might look like in a world where networking technology allows people to live in several bodies at the same time.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eScience Friday \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An immersive future history, \u003ci\u003eThe Unraveling\u003c\/i\u003e is a fantastic adventure that is also a story about the love that binds us to each other—and to the galaxy itself. Rosenbaum’s writing is wonderfully complex and whimsical, but most of all it is humane. No matter how alien his characters and worlds, they feel like kin.” —\u003cb\u003eAnnalee Newitz\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAutonomous\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“If you’ve followed Rosenbaum’s work to date—glittering, cerebral,hilarious short fiction—then it will not surprise you to learn thatthis is a book that is as weird and wild as shoes on a snake.”—\u003cb\u003eCory Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWalkaway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I hope a ton of people read this book, think about it, and talk about it, as this is the book that could launch a hundred think pieces and a thousand imitators . . . I truly feel like \u003ci\u003eThe Unraveling\u003c\/i\u003e is a reinvention of new directions stories can go when playing with science fiction’s favorite questions: What If? Why Not?” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLittle Red Reviewer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e “The wonders of this novel are best revealed by reading it. . . . I was surprised again and again.” —\u003cb\u003eRich Horton\u003c\/b\u003e, editor of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Rosenbaum \u003c\/b\u003ehas been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards. He is the author of the short story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Ant King and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and the Jewish historical fantasy tabletop role-playing game \"Dream Apart\", and the Jewish historical fantasy interactive fiction game \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost and the Golem\u003c\/i\u003e, forthcoming from Choice of Games. He also co-hosts the podcast \u003ci\u003eMohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans\u003c\/i\u003e. Originally from Arlington, VA, he lives near Basel, Switzerland, with his wife and children. 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