Description
'Satire at its best' ELEANOR CATTON, author of Birnam Wood
'Outrageous, comic, disturbingly timely' THE GUARDIAN
A stubborn slacker is spurred to radical climate action by a snarky teenager with big ideas in this bold, darkly funny and brilliantly bizarre debut.
Thirty-something Alice has an IQ of 159 (almost a genius) and lives at home with her mother, with whom she communicates only by Morse code. Meanwhile, the climate is in crisis. Wealthy immigrants are flocking to New Zealand for shelter, stealing land, driving up food prices and taking over. When Alice meets attractive wealthugee Pablo, she thinks she has found a way out of her dull existence. But then in walks his teenage daughter, Erika, an actual genius with impeccable eye makeup, and Alice finds herself drawn into action of the most radical - and dangerous - kind. Just what is a slacker to do? By turns sinister and hilarious, She's a Killer is the story of a reluctant genius who is drawn into radical action as the world falls apart around her.
Author: Kirsten McDougall
Publisher: Gallic Books
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.96d
ISBN13: 9781913547769
ISBN10: 1913547760
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous | Dark Humor
- Fiction | Dystopian
- Fiction | World Literature | New Zealand
About the Author
Kirsten McDougall is a novelist, short story writer and works for a union. Her 2017 work Tess was longlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards and shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award. She's a Killer was longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award and Ockham NZ Book Awards 2022. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.