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HER DEATH WAS ALSO WATER by Allen C. Jones A mixture of apocalypse, high-seas adventure, and otherworldliness, Her Death Was Also Water tells the story of seven people trying to survive on a small boat in a world completely transformed by an apocalyptic flood. Haunted by entwined pasts, the characters must voyage from a small Midwestern town through a world that seems increasingly fantastic. Each will face their past, and some will die, and the boat will even oat through the miraculous, but only fifteen-year old Charlotte will discover that death is not always death. Sometimes, it is also water. Virginia Woolf’s stream of consciousness meets Yann Martel’s magical realism as a young woman discovers a sense of adventurous possibility in a world that has taken nearly everything from her. PB 368 | 234 x 153 | $29.99 ISBN: 9781925227918 | November 2022 Novel | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing Distributed by NewSouth Books |
Advance Praise for Her Death Was Also Water
Her Death Was Also Water is a searing yet hypnotic debut by a novelist in full control of his powers. With an unforgettable cast of characters, Allen Jones distills so many of our collective fears about climate change and the uncertain global future into prose that is buoyed by beauty and hope. This is an unforgettable reading experience.
Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of When Ghosts Come Home
In his brilliantly imagined debut novel Her Death Was Also Water, Allen C. Jones has given us a polyphonic fever dream in which our current cultural moment is seen both through the prismatic depths of a flood that has washed the world clean and on the vast reflective surface upon which the characters throw their pasts like nets, hoping to retrieve the meaning that will nourish them through the apocalypse.
Daniel Mueller, author of How Animals Mate and Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey
In his ambitious, debut novel, Her Death Was Water, Allen C. Jones reaches back to the imagery of the great classics, such as the Bible’s punishing flood and Odysseus’ perilous journey, and projects the notion of a water world into the punishing, perilous future of a post-climate change planet.
Stuart Dybek, winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant
Her Death Was Also Water puts seven strikingly different characters on a boat in an
apocalyptic flood and shows us the best and worst of humanity. An imaginative blend of family drama, allegory, magic realism, satire and eco-fiction, the novel is also a psychologically astute, at times deftly humorous, take on masculine bravado and vulnerability; an incisive critique of class and racial inequality; and a haunting evocation of grief. Above all, this unsettling, compassionate story affirms the value of community and the necessity for hope in our deeply damaged world.
Award-winning writer Susan Midalia
Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of When Ghosts Come Home
In his brilliantly imagined debut novel Her Death Was Also Water, Allen C. Jones has given us a polyphonic fever dream in which our current cultural moment is seen both through the prismatic depths of a flood that has washed the world clean and on the vast reflective surface upon which the characters throw their pasts like nets, hoping to retrieve the meaning that will nourish them through the apocalypse.
Daniel Mueller, author of How Animals Mate and Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey
In his ambitious, debut novel, Her Death Was Water, Allen C. Jones reaches back to the imagery of the great classics, such as the Bible’s punishing flood and Odysseus’ perilous journey, and projects the notion of a water world into the punishing, perilous future of a post-climate change planet.
Stuart Dybek, winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant
Her Death Was Also Water puts seven strikingly different characters on a boat in an
apocalyptic flood and shows us the best and worst of humanity. An imaginative blend of family drama, allegory, magic realism, satire and eco-fiction, the novel is also a psychologically astute, at times deftly humorous, take on masculine bravado and vulnerability; an incisive critique of class and racial inequality; and a haunting evocation of grief. Above all, this unsettling, compassionate story affirms the value of community and the necessity for hope in our deeply damaged world.
Award-winning writer Susan Midalia