Description:
FRAGILE tells the story of a man responsible for keeping New York City alive and an under-ground animal activist from the wrong side of the East River--who teaches him what being alive truly means.
Review Quotes:
"This striking fiction debut sets a character-rich story of connection and political awakening in a dystopian future New York where Manhattan and Brooklyn are behind seawalls and the Earth has been ravaged by climate change and resource scarcity."-BOOKLIFE
"At the heart of this thought-provoking novel are two damaged people trying to build a relationship while working at cross purposes to help society amid dealing with a broken system's inequities... An engrossing book that holds out hope despite all the mistakes made by humans."-KIRKUS REVIEWS
"A compelling near-future dystopia about climate collapse and helping the vulnerable survive"-INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW
"Alexa Weik von Mossner's debut novel is, by turns, thrilling, thoughtful, romantic, terrifying, and imagi-native. Pick Fragile up at your own peril-I promise that you won't want to put it down." -KAREEM TAYYAR, Author of The Prince of Orange County
Weik von Mossner's gripping novel Fragile hits the target on the most urgent problems of scale that come with climate change. Global ecological crises and disrupted supply lines are part of Jake Alvaro's everyday job routine: securing medications for urban hospitals saves the lives of New Yorkers, but kills people elsewhere. Fragile takes climate fiction to a new level: a fast-paced, suspenseful must-read for anyone interested in our planet's future." -URSULA HEISE, Author of Imagining Extinction
"Fragile is a scarily topical tale of what soon may come to be in our fast-changing world. And it's also a moving love story between two people from opposite sides of the track, both trying desperately to save the world they love. I read it with huge enjoyment.-SUSANNAH WATERS, Author of Cold Comfort
"One of the most exciting elements is how visual this near-future version of New York is, split between being greener, with less cars and gardens and plants everywhere, while also half the city has been swept under water." -THE BLACK LIST