How to build a home for the end of the World

How To Build a Home for the End of the World is a magical realist dystopian road trip novel by Keely Shinners. Donny is a carpenter who renovates houses nobody lives in. His daughter, Mary-Beth, is hell-bent on donating her organs to her chronically ill ex-girlfriend, Aida. Together, they go on a road trip across a waterless American wasteland, populated by a peculiar cast of angels and ghosts, revolutionaries and academics, performance artists and desert hippies. Formulated as a case history of post apocalyptic times, How To Build a Home for the End of the World investigates the ways in which people understand memory, healing, and redemption in the throes of of ever-unraveling crisis.

Grantor

Department of English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Shinners, Keely

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Coovadia, Imraan

• English Language
• Literature

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32347

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/32347