Bad Vibes

THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER meets ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE in this unmissable eco-satire I find it funny that London still has street buskers. Like the band on the Titanic, buskers will play us straight through a mass extinction event. Hope is coming of age during the uncoming of an age. The planet is sliding into an anti-climactic climate apocalypse. Her scientist parents have been fired for speaking truth to power. And, when not casually living through a mass extinction event, she's passed over in favour of her mediocre white classmates. A decade later, Hope has clawed her way into a career as the uncredited mastermind behind the biggest charity on Earth. That is until she devises a fundraiser disguised as an ayahuasca retreat targeting repentant billionaires. It's a once-in-an-age opportunity that will bring her face-to-face with power - and one that will unmask it for the cheap farce it is. A riotous parody of power spinning climate fiction on its head as it takes the emotional temperature of our era, BAD VIBES is about the struggle of tending to our hope while the world crumbles into a steaming cesspool of white supremacy and single-use plastic. For readers of SEVERANCE by Ling Ma, SUCH A FUN AGE by Kiley Reid and WEATHER by Jenny Offill