Survivalists - Kashana Cauley

In The Wake Of Her Parents'' Death, Aretha, A Habitually Single Black Lawyer, Has Had Only One Obsession In Life - Success - Until She Falls For Aaron, A Coffee Entrepreneur. Moving Into His Brooklyn Brownstone To Live Along With His Hurricane Sandy-traumatised, Illegal-gun-stockpiling, Optimised-soy-protein-eating, Bunker-building Roommates, Aretha Finds That Her Dreams Of Making Partner Are Slipping Away, Replaced By An Underground World, One Of Selling Guns And Training For A Doomsday That''s Maybe Just Around The Corner. For Readers Of Victor Lavalle''s The Changeling, Paul Beatty''s The Sellout, And Zakiya Harris''s The Other Black Girl, The Survivalists Is A Darkly Humorous Novel From A Smart And Relevant New Literary Voice That''s Packed With Tension, Curiosity And Wit, And Unafraid To Ask The Questions Most Relevant To A New Generation Of Americans: Does It Make Sense To Climb The Corporate Ladder?