The Heap

Review

“Cutting satire . . . . A compelling narrative with unexpected twists and darkly comic turns.” (New York Times Book Review)

“Like Snowpiercer‘s train, a George Saunders amusement park, or the fractured cityscape from a Donald Barthelme story, The Heap‘s Los Verticalés is a sardonic monument to our decadent culture teetering on the brink of collapse. A wry, inventive, and highly original debut.” (Chandler Klang Smith, author of The Sky Is Yours)

“The Heap is dizzying in scale, but at its heart it’s an endearing and downright fun story about a man who defies all odds to reestablish a familial link that’s been sundered by technology, catastrophe and commerce. . . . The first great science fiction novel of 2020, The Heap is sharp, acidic and sweet.” (NPR)

“As intellectually playful as the best of Thomas Pynchon and as sardonically warm as the best of Kurt Vonnegut, The Heap is both a hilarious send-up of life under late capitalism and a moving exploration of the peculiar loneliness of the early 21st century. A masterful and humane gem of a novel.” (Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters)

“Somehow both timely and timeless, The Heap explores with heart what it means to live in the wake of strange new kinds of catastrophe.” (Seth Fried, author of The Municipalists)

“An incandescent, melancholy satire. . . . Fans of Borges and other inventive but piercing stories will revel in this offbeat novel.” (Publishers Weekly)

“A sharp, evocative look at human arrogance and the sense of community we build after tragedy.” (Library Journal)

“[The Heap] recalls elaborate dystopian scenes found in Terry Gillam films. . . . Irresistibly clever commentary steeped in wit and secrets.”  (Booklist)

“A dystopian nightmare that is metaphorical in nature but has a compelling story. . . . A vision of the future that gives the working class a chance to get even.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Darkly funny and dystopian.” (New York Post)