Black WaveGrungy and queer, Michelle is a grrrl hung up on a city in riot. Its San Francisco and its 1999. Determined to quell her addictions to heroin, catastrophic romance, and the city itself, she heads south for LA, just as the news hits: in one year the world is Officially Over. The suicides have begun. And its here that Black Wave breaks itself open, splitting into every possible story, questioning who has the right to write about whom. People begin to

our narrator – who could well be the author himself

the companion

as a reader

He lives in Brooklyn

Hassan al-Zein

Kops allows life to flow over him

With 25 poems and many full-page illustrations that use watercolour and collage

pairs that face each other across the page

And looters staggered under bursting bags

Alexandra Penland

mother and son make their lonely ways through the unforgiving night

A Kiss of Death