From the #1
New York Times
bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel
Lincoln in the Bardo
and the story collection
Tenth of December
, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Welcome to Inner Horner, a nation so small it can only accommodate one citizen at a time. The other six citizens must wait their turns in the Short-Term Residency Zone of the surrounding country of Outer Horner. It's a long-standing arrangement between the fantastical, not-exactly-human citizens of the two countries. But when Inner Horner suddenly shrinks, forcing three-quarters of the citizen then in residence over the border into Outer Horner territory, the Outer Hornerites declare an Invasion In Progress—having fallen under the spell of the power-hungry and demagogic Phil.
So begins
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
.  An
Animal Farm
for the 21st century, this is an incendiary political satire of unprecedented imagination, spiky humor, and cautionary appreciation for the hysteric in everyone.