New Book
In this “blisteringly innovative and outrageous” ( The Observer ) novel that the Los Angeles Times describes as “somewhere between Nabokov’s Pnin and Veep ,” a young politician discovers a mysterious stuffed aardvark on his doorstep and sets out on a journey to find out what it means.
Early one August morning, millennial congressman Alexander Paine Wilson (R) receives a strange package in the mail. Inside is an enormous taxidermied aardvark. What does it mean? Well, everything. Hurtling from the beginning of the universe to present-day Washington, DC, this astonishing, edge-of-your-seat novel is at once a piercing look into the sick heart of our democracy and a profoundly moving meditation on the nature of love, power, and evil. In the end you will not only know the meaning of the aardvark, you will see our current reality through new eyes.
*One of Time Magazine’s Must-Read Books of 2020*
Reviews
“Inventive and darkly funny…as Anthony connects characters from today with those from 19th-century England, she offers an original and unsettling lens through which to view male power as it has evolved over time.”– TIME
“If you’ve been wondering, as I have, where the spirit of Nathanael West might be in these berserk and awful times, enter Jessica Anthony. With her highly inventive, ever attentive, and morally serious (as all great comedy must be) Enter the Aardvark, she estranges all over again our deplorable political moment, and thereby helps make it bearable.”– JOSHUA FERRIS, author of The Dinner Party andThen We Came to the End
” Enter the Aardvark is one wild ride: a condemnation, a haunting, a song of love, a madcap political thriller-and it is absolutely unputdownable. I have long been a massive fan of Jessica Anthony’s writing and this novel cements her as one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page. Welcome, readers, to her world.”– LAURA VAN DEN BERG, author of The Third Hotel
