Mad Eden (2026)

By Morgan Thomas

"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 Sky From a pathbreaking writer, a thrilling, form-bending novel about a trans healthcare worker whose carefully built life is suddenly imperiled. Ro and Liam live in a ramshackle cabin in a secluded stretch of Florida. Neither their home nor their sometimes-tumultuous relationship is what the world would call perfect, but to Ro—newly diagnosed with autism and working as a patient navigator for people seeking gender-affirming care—their life, despite the deeply inhospitable political climate, is a kind of paradise. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what shatters their peace. There’s Quentin, the unpredictable teenager for whom Liam and Ro are quasi-parents, who visits on his way to college, where he plans to finally start T. There’s the appearance…

Published

2026