X: A Novel Caroline Woods Pierce Brown’s dizzyingly good debut

Pierce Brown’s dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games

The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision

And in the depths of a Midwestern winter

“an expert natural storyteller with a keen sense of her characters’ humanity” (New York Times)

but it’s an unearthed piece of family history that transforms Isabel’s life

X: A Novel Caroline Woods Pierce Brown’s dizzyingly good debutA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A thrilling portrait of political terror and the violent pleasures found in warehouses, bathrooms, and dungeons across New York City, X is a novel that delves into the psyches of characters on the margins The world is ending, and down and out sadist Lee spends their days working for a big corporation and their nights wandering the streets of Brooklyn listening to true crime podcasts. But everything changes