Wonderblood

Hardcover | 3 April 2018

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Set 500 years in the future, a mad cow-like disease called "Bent Head" has killed off most of the U.S. population. Those remaining turn to magic and sacrifice to cleanse the Earth.

Set five-hundred years in the future, Wonderblood, is Julia Whicker's fascinating literary debut, told from the perspective of three narrators and set in a barren United States, an apocalyptic wasteland where warring factions compete for control of the land in strange and dangerous carnivals. A mad cow-like disease called "Bent Head" has killed off millions. Those who remain worship NASA's 20th century space shuttle program, and Cape Canaveral is their Mecca. Medicine and science have been rejected in favor of magic, prophecy, and blood sacrifice.

When traveling marauders led by the bloodthirsty Mr. Capulatio invade her small town, a young girl named Aurora is taken captive as his bride and forced to join his band on their journey to Cape Canaveral. Meanwhile, her estranged mother Gimbal, a self-educated doctor opposed to magical thinking, attempts to cure the country with medicine in direct opposition to the chief court astronomer who looks for fortune and salvation in the stars. Politics and survival are at the forefront of this ravishing debut that will remind readers of Cormac McCarthy's The Road mixed with Jeff VanderMeer's Acceptance.

Industry Reviews

Whicker has imagined a fierce future...Dense, dark, haunting. --Booklist

Whicker's debut sets the stage for a possible series full of bloodlust, court intrigue, and unforgettable characters. For fans of Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth series, and George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books. --Library Journal

Told in rich, dense prose, Whicker's fantasy feels like a blood-steeped dream: there are mummified heads and a religion based on astronauts. The story's voice is vibrant and warm as the Florida heat --Publishers Weekly

In a novel marked with heart-stopping violence, brutal ritual, surreal courtly intrigue, and moments of piercing beauty, Julia Whicker imagines a clash of religions in a broken future. The characters, and their world, are unforgettable. --Vivien Shotwell, author of Vienna Nocturne

Visceral and intense... a fully built-out world, rich with color and detail. --Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Wonderblood is a richly imagined, otherworldly tale about the power - and danger - of faith and belief. I loved this book's beautiful prose and its startling, brutal, and poetic images; I loved its unique premise and masterful worldbuilding; I loved its complicated, passionate, and mesmerizing characters. Julia Whicker is a genius. This is a strange, daring, and masterful first novel. --Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of California

A richly imagined broken world, one whose land, customs, history, and people are so sharply conveyed that they seem almost to have been incised into the page. I admire Wonderblood for its absorbing and unsettling story, for the uncanny beauty of its prose, but above all else for the daring of its tone, which begins in pitch darkness and brightens not to white but to a more lustrous black. --Kevin Brockmeier, New York Times bestselling author

In fiercely glittering prose Julia Whicker evokes an apocalyptic America where medicine is illegal, everyone is searching for portents and only a severed head can offer protection. I love how richly imagined this novel is and I love how relentlessly it moves towards its amazing climax. Wonderblood is a stunning debut. --Margot Livesey, New York Times bestselling author

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