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The Regional Office is Under Attack!

Author: Manuel Gonzales

2018 Longlist

In a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization-the Regional Office-and its coterie of super-powered female assassins protects the globe from annihilation. At its helm, the mysterious Oyemi and her oracles seek out new recruits and root out evil plots. Then a prophecy suggests that someone from inside might bring about its downfall. And now, the Regional Office is under attack.

Recruited by a defector from within, Rose is a young assassin leading the attack, eager to stretch into her powers and prove herself on her first mission. Defending the Regional Office is Sarah-who may or may not have a mechanical arm-fiercely devoted to the organization that took her in as a young woman in the wake of her mother’s sudden disappearance. On the day that the Regional Office is attacked, Rose’s and Sarah’s stories will overlap, their lives will collide, and the world as they know it just might end.

Weaving in a brilliantly conceived mythology, fantastical magical powers, teenage crushes, and kinetic fight scenes, The Regional Office Is Under Attack! is a seismically entertaining debut novel about revenge and allegiance and love.

About the author

Manuel Gonzales is the author of the acclaimed story collection The Miniature Wife, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. A graduate of the Columbia University Creative Writing Program, he teaches writing at the University of Kentucky and the Institute of American Indian Arts. He has published fiction and nonfiction in Open City, Fence, One Story, Esquire, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and The Believer. Gonzales lives in Kentucky with his wife and two children.

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Librarian’s comments

In the spirit of Treasure Island or Frankenstein, we have a novel that transcends its action/adventure genre, bucking the trend of short punchy sentences in favour of long luxurious first person narration that Mrs. Dalloway might use, and a morally ambivalent plot line gloriously reminiscent of Greek mythology. It is easy to imagine generations of future writers going back to this book to see how action can and should be written.

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Author

Manuel Gonzales

Country

US

Nominating Library

Cleveland Public Library, USA

Publisher

Riverhead Books, USA

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