Named a New York Times Style Magazine pick for Best Queer Summer Fiction One of Marie Claire's "11 Best Climate Fiction Books" - Named a Most Anticipated book by Electric Literature, Jordy's Book Club, Out Magazine, and more! "Scarily prescient, outrageously funny, and utterly original" -Coco Mellors, New York Times Bestselling author of Blue Sisters
Parks-Ramage takes the idea of a wealthy, sometimes frivolous main character getting ready for a party and dials it up to 11. But then, in an ambitious move that brings a delightful element of camp to the novel, he abandons that relatively safe and simple premise in favor of an exercise in maximalism. Which is to say that his plot goes off the rails — and it works...It's Not the End of the World is a wild ride of a novel. Sometimes you have to laugh so you won't cry — and as is usually the case with camp, there is something true and painful running beneath the humor.