Isabel Waidner Corey Fah Does Social Mobility Paperback Book

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE NOTA BENE PRIZE 2024A radical, joyful novel from Goldsmiths Prizewinning author Isabel WaidnerIn flight from a traumatic rural childhood, Corey Fah has come to earth in a onebed council flat in the capital. Trapped, with partner Drew, in the limited world which late capitalism has allotted them, they are modestly happy but practically futureless. Until, one day, Corey is offered a lifechanging prize from out of the blue. Things are looking up but as Corey soon finds, its one thing winning a prize in lifes lottery, and quite another being able to collect it especially if you are a queer, working class immigrant with all of History working against you. Corey Fahs pursuit of the elusive prize and an escape from precarity is a whirlwind, epic journey through the streets of the city and the timeloops of the past, written with boundless energy and invention. Social mobility, in this radiant, radical novel, is never a simple step up the ladder, but a hopeful leap into the void. Praise for Corey Fah Does Social MobilityA headspinning, mindbending roller coaster of fun, horror, and subversion Kamila ShamsieA radical, rebellious novel . . . [Waidner] brings a fresh lens to our troubled world Observer[The] writer everyone is talking about . . . and deservedly so Bernardine EvaristoFilled with wickedly sharp commentary and wellaimed digs at hypocrisy and injustice Times Literary Supplement | Isabel Waidner Corey Fah Does Social Mobility Paperback Book