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THE UNMAPPING
Tagline: Intimate and spellbinding, THE UNMAPPING is a character-driven, literary sci-fi exploration of a city’s descent into chaos and confusion, perfect for fans of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel and Exit West by Mohsin Hamid.
About THE UNMAPPING: 4 a.m. New York City. A silent disaster.
There is no flash of light, no crumbling, no quaking. Each person in New York wakes up on an unfamiliar block after its buildings rearrange their positions overnight. The power grid has snapped, thousands of residents are missing, and the Empire State Building is on Coney Island—for now. The next night, it happens again.
Esme Green and Arjun Varma work for the city of New York's emergency management team and are tasked with managing the disaster response for “The Unmapping.” As Esme tries to wade through the bureaucratic nightmare of an endlessly shuffling city, she's distracted by the ongoing search for her missing fiancé. Arjun focuses on the ground-level rescue of disoriented New Yorkers, hoping to become the hero the city needs.
With scientists scrambling to find a solution—or at least a means to cope—and mysterious “red cloak” cults cropping up in the disaster’s wake, New York begins to reckon with a new reality no one recognizes. For Esme and Arjun, the fight to hold the city together will mean tackling questions about themselves that they are too afraid to ask—and facing answers they never expected.
With themes of climate change, political unrest, and social justice, THE UNMAPPING is a timely and captivating debut.
About the author: After serving as communications director for a climate advocacy nonprofit, Denise S. Robbins started her own climate communications consulting company. She co-authored the non-fiction Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century (Indiana University Press, 2017) and is a Pushcart-nominated author whose stories have appeared in Barcelona Review and Gulf Coast Journal, among others. Her work has been a finalist for the University of Louisville’s Calvino Prize and received a silver honorable mention in L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest. In addition to The Unmapping, Denise recently completed Wonderwild and Other Stories, a slipstream climate fiction story collection, and her coming of age/social activism literary novel, Wisconsonian. https://denisesrobbins.com
About the tastemaker: Marines Alvarez has been creating content across a variety of platforms since 2011 and has amassed a following of 108k followers on TikTok and 32k on YouTube at mynameismarines. She is known for her incisive critical thinking and media analysis and has become a prominent advocate for underrepresented voices. With a broad literary palate, her primary focus will be finding thematically rich, evocative speculative fiction by authors with distinctive voices. https://mareas.binderybooks.com/
“Even as the city shifts and changes, its residents still have to work and live—and perhaps join a cult, as some side characters do, in search of answers as to why this is happening. Despite the unnerving circumstances, Robbins’s literary sci-fi borders on cozy. For readers ready to blur the lines between science and magic, such as in Matt Haig’s fiction, and those interested in exploring the emotional impact of disaster.” – Library Journal
“What a powerful way to get at the essential fact of our time—that the world we've always known is now shifting around us, and we must come together to confront that reality.” – Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
“Bold, inventive, and genre-defying, The Unmapping is a thrilling exploration of human nature, survival, and the unknown forces that shape our world. At once surreal and eerily prescient, Robbins deftly conjures the disorientation of a city upended and rearranged by a mysterious phenomenon, and the fragility of the systems that underpin our lives. I was in Robbins’ thrall from page one.” – Nada Alic, author of Bad Thoughts
“The Unmapping is a wildly imaginative and thought-provoking novel that feels urgently, almost painfully, relevant. Yet it radiates a constant warmth, a testament to Robbins's unique voice. This novel will make you think, but it will also make you dream.” – David Yoo, author of The Choke Artist
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