Dead in Long Beach, California

Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the 2025 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2024. One of NPR''s 2024 Books We Love. Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize.

“Told by machines from the future, Blackburn’s idiosyncratic grief novel is as freshly devastating as they come.” —The New York Times Book Review

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