Overview

Habitatinvites us to witness a near-future dystopia filled with cloned animals, a sponsorship-based education system, and a subculture obsessed with body transplants as performance art-concluding 100 years in the future with a girl's post-apocalyptic quest to find her father. In this novel told through linked narratives, a father embraces a grisly family tradition to help secure a better education for his daughter after a neighborhood barbecue. A young man crashes his family's meticulously planned annual gala to unveil his latest surgical transplant. Parents try to find a way to give their daughter the year's most sought-after Christmas gift-a clone of the canine star of a sci-fi television show. Combining body horror, science fiction, and poignant family drama,Habitatis a genre-bending and wholly original first novel.

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""Fans of T.C. Boyle and Karen Russell, rejoice! Case Q. Kerns' Habitat is home to nine clever stories that refract our world into something both strange and all-too-familiar. Two parts fable and one-part warning, Kerns' writing endeavors to show us who we are and what we might, in the not-too-distant future, become. A brilliant achievement."" --Nick White, author of How to Survive a Summer

Author Information

Case Q. Kerns is the author of Habitat, a novel of interconnected narratives beginning in a near future New England and ending a century later. Originally from Buffalo, NY, he received a BS in Cinema & Photography from Ithaca College and an MFA from Emerson College where he served as fiction editor for the literary journal Redivider. His work has appeared in The Literary Review, The Harvard Review, and West Branch. He lives in Medford, Massachusetts with his family.

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