April 20, 2017
"Claudia Casper’s prescient and lyrical novel, The Mercy Journals (Arsenal Pulp Press), builds on the rich speculative canon of Mary Shelley, Claire Vaye Watkins, Jules Verne, Margaret Atwood, and George Orwell, among others, in its terrifying exploration of the future..."
https://www.hypertextmag.com/hypertext-interview-with-claudia-casper/
June 3, 2016
Here are links and a few choice quotes from recent reviewers and Q&As
CBC SUMMER READING LIST
Great company - Louise Erdrich, Matti Freeman, Emma Straub, Alissa York, Carmen Aguirre:
http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/05/cbc-books-summer-2016-reading-list.html
Excerpt from Q&A (linked below) with CBC Books' Jane van Koeverden ("Casper's fearless new novel"):
May 12, 2016
Quill & Quire Review
The Mercy Journals
reviewed by Robert J. Wiersema
May 9, 2016
Mary Woodbury from eco-fiction.com and I had a deep conversation about literature, the future, climate change activism and what literature can bring to it. Here's the link to the interview, and check out the website.
http://eco-fiction.com/interview-with-claudia-casper-the-mercy-journals/
March 25, 2016
It's 2047, and a third world war and climate change have left billions dead. A new global government has created a set of emergency laws to facilitate humanity's survival. Allen "Mercy" Quincy enforces new environmental standards. But Allen isn't without his demons, not the least of which is the unknown location of his two sons. He suffers from PTSD and journals as a process of "mnemectomy"—attempting to degrade unwanted memories by placing them outside of himself.
March 25, 2016
Claudia Casper’s third novel, The Mercy Journals, addresses a timely issue: how to live in a degraded world. The first point is that many people don’t. We learn right at the beginning that the journals are found on Vancouver Island in 2072, along with the remains of a human being and a cougar. Allen Quincy, whose nickname is Mercy, writes his two journals in 2047, after a great die-off and the restructuring of the political system in OneWorld.
March 25, 2016
Another very good early review. I like the way the reviewer described the book (except the last 3 words, but who's to say?)
Money quote: "Part cautionary tale, part survival narrative...Casper employs clear, concise prose that moves at a steady clip, and the exploration, through one man's account, of what it means to outlive one's purpose is tightly constructed."
http://publishersweekly.com/pw/reviews/single/978-1-55152-633-1
