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Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett
Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett






Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett

A love story for a new age.” - Jeffery Ford, author of Crackpot Palace

Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett

It’s a science fiction, post-apocalyptic, tale, a love story, but not your dumb old man’s love story. “The style flows and draws you into the fiction and keeps you there-poetic in its imagery but simultaneously economical. “It’s really quite difficult for me to believe it’s a first novel, it’s so good: incredibly ambitious, beautifully written, moving, and with an extremely poignant ending, not to mention that remarkable, intricate balancing act with all your various hall-of-mirrors characters.” - Elizabeth Hand, award-winning author Just as the heroine/hero slowly comes to realize what is happening to the world, so, too, does the reader.” - Library Journal “The novel’s unsettling and unusual structure works because Brissett skillfully seeds symbols and repeats elements to carry the reader through each version of the world. “Brissett deftly handles the challenge of a multitude of characters all being the same people in a multitude of places that are the same place, while exploring complicated questions about identity.” - Publishers Weekly She has a lovely low alto, which I always think is the most adaptable pitch for many voices…The audiobook production offers a clever adaptation of the text…a gorgeous book.” - Locus (audio review) “Jamye Méri Grant does wonderful work here.

Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett

“This haunting, surreal story about surviving at all costs… rich exploration of identity and memory.” - Washington Post








Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett