Novel
the half-drowned
- Publisher
- Metatron Press
- Published
- June 2022
- Pages
- 144
- Price
- $18.00
- ISBN
- 9781988355252
- Language
- English
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The team behind the book
- Editing
- Shazia Hafiz Ramji
- Design
- Sidney Masuga
In the first floods there was euphoria even after we lost our homes. We had to move uphill into some unsteady yet permanent state of being earthbound. Sometimes we still buzz with the excitement of living through intentional destruction when we get a storm bad enough to make you sore but not enough to make you ache for generations.
the half-drowned is a vision of a future at the end of the world where what survives is the shapeshifting love of family both given and chosen. Drawing on the Afro-diasporic ancestral knowledge of water and the urgency of desire, Delaney builds a glittering, speculative world where community holds through grief, where we must choose to fend for ourselves while also caring for others. the half-drowned is a genre-bending novella that crafts a polyphony of voices to speak to and through our lives and dreams in order to reach for the unspoken and unsayable and make it heard.
Description from the publisher Metatron Press, seen in October 2026 · Source ↗
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