People Park (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781593765392)

It's the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New Fraternal League of Men. To celebrate, the insular island city has engaged the illustrator Raven, who promises to deliver the most astonishing spectacle its residents have ever seen. As the entire island comes together for the event, we meet an unforgettable cross-section of its inhabitants, from activists to nihilists, art stars to athletes, families to inveterate loners. Soon, however, what has promised to be a triumph of civic harmony begins to reveal its shadow side. And when Raven's illustration exceeds even the most extreme of expectations, the island is plunged into a series of unnatural disasters that force people to confront what they are really made of.

People Park is a tour de force of eerily prescient, grotesque, and hilarious observation and a narrative of gripping, unrelenting suspense. Malla writes as if the twin demons of Stephen King and Flannery O'Connor were resting on his shoulders. You've never read anything quite like People Park.

Author: Pasha Malla
ISBN-10: 1593765398
ISBN-13: 9781593765392
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 03/11/2014
Pages: 488
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/04/2013