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’s The Changeling, Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, and Zakiya Harris’s The Other Black Girl, The Survivalists
is 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?
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