Marie Claire put together this great list of best beach reads (aka stay-inside-and-stop-the-spread-of-COVID reads) for summer 2020 and it includes Afterland along with books by Emily Temple, Brit Bennett, and Leah Konen. Megan DiTrolio writes: Who run the world? In Lauren Beukes Afterland, it’s girls. Literally. In a world where a pandemic has taken the lives […]
There’s a lovely loneliness in this illustration Michelle Urra did for the High Country News review of Afterland. I’m maybe a little bit blown away. The accompanying review, by Kimi Eisele, was so thoughtful and engaged, too: Beukes, a South African novelist, propels the story forward with stolen cars, flying bullets and rest stops in […]
I’m so happy that Shelf Awareness liked Afterland and wrote up such a thorough review. Here’s an excerpt, from Terry Hong: With remarkable prescience, Lauren Beukes’s Afterland takes on an “unprecedented global pandemic” with chilling results–and surprising comic relief threaded throughout. Six years after the success of Broken Monsters, the internationally bestselling South African author sets another disturbing novel […]
Hey, there’s a fantastic review of Afterland in Kirkus! Here’s an excerpt: Miles and his mom form the beating heart of a harrowing tale that ably explores grief, motherhood, and gender roles, and Cole’s struggle to protect Miles as he grapples with coming-of-age in a radically altered world will resonate. Beukes is a gifted storyteller […]