The Survivalists

A single Black lawyer puts her career and personal moral code at risk when she moves in with her coffee entrepreneur boyfriend and his doomsday-prepping roommates in a novel that’s packed with tension, curiosity, humor, and wit from a writer with serious comedy credentials.

In the wake of her parents’ death, Aretha, a habitually single Black lawyer, has had only one obsession in life–success–until she falls for Aaron, a coffee entrepreneur. Moving into his Brooklyn brownstone to live along with his Hurricane Sandy-traumatized, illegal-gun-stockpiling, optimized-soy-protein-eating, bunker-building roommates, Aretha finds that her dreams of making partner are slipping away, replaced by an underground world, one of selling guns and training for a doomsday that’s maybe just around the corner.

For readers of Victor LaValle’sThe Changeling, Paul Beatty’sThe Sellout, and Zakiya Harris’sThe Other Black Girl,The Survivalistsis a darkly humorous novel from a smart and relevant new literary voice that’s packed with tension, curiosity and wit, and unafraid to ask the questions most relevant to a new generation of Americans: Does it make sense to climb the corporate ladder? What exactly are the politics of gun ownership? And in a world where it’s nearly impossible for young people to earn enough money to afford stable housing, what does it take in order to survive?

Kashana Cauleyis a former Midtown antitrust lawyer and Brooklyn resident. She is a writer for the Fox comedyThe Great North, a contributing opinion writer for theNew York Times, and aGQcontributor. She’s written forThe Daily Show with Trevor NoahandPod Save AmericaonHBOas well asThe Atlantic,The New Yorker,Pitchfork, andRolling Stone, and has published fiction inEsquire,Slate,Tin House, andThe Chronicles of Now. Kashana now lives in Los Angeles.

• Publisher:Soft Skull (January 10, 2023)
• Language:English
• Hardcover:288 pages
• ISBN-10:1593767277
• ISBN-13:9781593767273
• Item Weight:1.25 pounds