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So glad this was the first novel I read this year (2018). Davis does a wonder here, where their prose feels quiet and deeply anxious at once. It's a small/intimate story, about a queer couple's (bea and k) relationship (and the conflict that has arisen there) in the Bay area.

All the while, the possibility of the Big One (the big earthquake due from the Cascadia Subduction Zone) looms over the book like a dark cloud. Alongside the uncertain possibility of the earthquake, there also runs interruptions in the text of click-bait headlines about earthquakes and politics (very T****-era) etc. that really help create the conditions of a text that is at once intimate and globally worried—which I think is the way that many of our over-connected lives look these days. But these aspects are not at all overstated in the text, they are just there, tweaking and re-anchoring the novel's tone.

Davis accomplishes a hell of a lot with relatively small decisions like these interrupting headlines, as well as through the chapter titles (most of which repeat themselves on different chapters throughout, like "SORE" and "THE BIG ONE") and the scarcity of capitalization. It is a bit of a shock that this is Davis' first novel, but I'm all here for it. Excited to see where they go next.


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the earthquake room Davey Davis 9780997044478 Books Reviews

Beautiful, aching, poetic. I underlined so many of the turns of phrase I almost forgot to pay attention to the story itself, which is dystopic and strange and fitting for these times.
I read this beautiful, succinct novel in one sitting. So many lines grabbed me.
So glad this was the first novel I read this year (2018). Davis does a wonder here, where their prose feels quiet and deeply anxious at once. It's a small/intimate story, about a queer couple's (bea and k) relationship (and the conflict that has arisen there) in the Bay area.

All the while, the possibility of the Big One (the big earthquake due from the Cascadia Subduction Zone) looms over the book like a dark cloud. Alongside the uncertain possibility of the earthquake, there also runs interruptions in the text of click-bait headlines about earthquakes and politics (very T****-era) etc. that really help create the conditions of a text that is at once intimate and globally worried—which I think is the way that many of our over-connected lives look these days. But these aspects are not at all overstated in the text, they are just there, tweaking and re-anchoring the novel's tone.

Davis accomplishes a hell of a lot with relatively small decisions like these interrupting headlines, as well as through the chapter titles (most of which repeat themselves on different chapters throughout, like "SORE" and "THE BIG ONE") and the scarcity of capitalization. It is a bit of a shock that this is Davis' first novel, but I'm all here for it. Excited to see where they go next.