About the book: 2020 / Katie is a writer. Katie is getting married. It's the summer of 2017 and the world is falling apart. Olivia Lang turns her first novel into a stunning, funny, and raw tale of love during the apocalypse. Like a 21st-century "Goodbye Berlin," "Crudo" chronicles the tumultuous summer of 2017 in real time from the perspective of commitment-phobic Kathy Acker, maybe... and not Kathy Acker. In an extremely expensive Tuscan hotel and a UK paralyzed by Brexit, trying to get used to marriage, Katie spends the first summer of her twenties. But she is not the only one changing. The political, social and natural landscapes are all at risk. Fascism is growing, truth is dead, and the planet is heating up. Is it even worth learning to love when the end of the world is so close? And how to create, not to mention how to live, when one angry tweet could end everything. Publishing layout saved in PDF A4 format.