Brother Brontë
The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of its mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick's pockets.
Scraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Proserpina and Neftal . One of Three Rivers' last literate citizens, Neftal hides and reads the books of the mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas, whose last novel, Brother Bront , is finally in Neftal 's possession. But after a series of increasingly violent atrocities committed by Crick's forces, Neftal and Proserpina, with the help of a wounded Bengal tigress, three scheming triplets, and an underground network of rebel t as, rise up to reclaim their city--and in the process, unlock Rivas's connection to Three Rivers itself.
An adventure that only the acclaimed Fernando A. Flores could dream up, Brother Bront is a mordant, gonzo romp through a ruined world that, in its dysfunction, tyranny, and disparity, feels uncannily like our own. With his most ambitious book yet, Flores once again bends what fiction can do, in the process crafting a moving and unforgettable story of perseverance.
"With nods to Fahrenheit 451 and The Grapes of Wrath, Fernando A. Flores's Brother Bront carves out a space for itself in the landscape of post-collapse literature--one that it fills with as much human warmth and vibrant poetry as righteous anger and dystopian sadness. A visceral journey through a uniquely American future, and an essential read."--Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail
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