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Advance Praise for Oval

“A fascinating near-future exploration of relationships, sustainability, and power. An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel.”

—JEFF VANDERMEER, author of Borne and Annihilation

“So good, so dark, so funny, so cruelly smart about where we are and where we’re going. This book is a petri dish growing a new strain of heartbreak. I’m sick with love for it.”

—SHELLEY JACKSON, author of Riddance and Half Life

“With wit and precision, Elvia Wilk pinpoints the moment when neoliberalism metastasizes into something far more sinister.”

—TOM McCARTHY, author of Satin Island and Remainder

“J. G. Ballard meets William Gibson meets Jeff VanderMeer. Oval is an up-to-the-minute story about the twilight zones of corporate design, aesthetics, pharmacy, and bioengineering, where there’s nothing consultants won’t break in the quest for ‘innovation.’ What could possibly go wrong? Find out in Elvia Wilk’s crisp and stylish debut book.”

—McKENZIE WARK, author of Molecular Red and A Hacker Manifesto

“Everything is work—mourning, clubbing, reading your partner’s moods. And everything is a scam—plants that become buildings, jobs that become consultancies, apps that become jobs. With astonishing emotional accuracy, Oval records what it feels like to hover between two poles.”

—SASHA FRERE-JONES

“Wonderfully clever and beguiling. The circle may be absolute, but the oval remains restless and bursts with potential.”

—CHLOE ARIDJIS, author of Sea Monsters and Book of Clouds

“As a social comedy of modern relationships and gentrifying Berlin, Elvia Wilk’s debut is exquisitely funny and exquisitely well observed. But it also has something weirder spliced into its DNA: fragments of the future that transform this story into a fabulous biopunk hybrid that’s not quite like anything else I’ve ever read.”

—NED BEAUMAN, author of Madness Is Better Than Defeat and The Teleportation Accident