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Mad Eden: A Novel

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A tender and surreal story of a trans healthcare worker navigating life, love and politics in the swamps of Florida.

FINALIST FOR THE 2026 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

“A story that is dazzling and devastating, tender and unflinching . . . Sentence by sentence, Mad Eden remakes the world as it tells it.” —Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez and Fire Exit

“Mad Eden is utterly gorgeous—with so many sentences I wanted to underline—and feels utterly essential at this moment when so many of us are feeling lost.” —Charlie Jane Anders, author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster and All the Birds in the...

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