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The Vivisectors: A Novel

By Missouri Williams
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$28.00
By Missouri Williams
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The Vivisectors is a surreal tale of power and privilege on a crumbling campus dominated by academics and gardeners, and one woman at the heart of it all.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE

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"Missouri Williams writes with a gothic angularity that puts her in a category of one. She swims in deep waters and surfaces now as a major writer for our age." -Paul Lynch, author of Prophet Song, winner of the Booker Prize

A reclusive graduate student is forced into a friendship that destabilizes her life in this surreal, allegorical romance.

In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by nature, where...

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