Mood Swings
A Novel
Shorlisted for the 2024 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal
In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who’s promised a time machine that will make everything normal again—whatever that means.
Everyone knows something’s off, but nobody can agree on just what it is. Maybe it’s the weather; maybe it’s because everyone’s so sensitive these days.
Jenlena and Daphne are two aimless humanities grads living in a crumbling Montreal when animals besiege cities and towns across the world, terrorizing their human residents. Though shocking, the threat is quickly neutralized when the animals are killed en masse for the safety of humanity. In the post-fauna world, Jenlena is transformed, shaking off her characteristic…
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May 28, 2024FRANKIE BARNET is the author of An Indoor Kind of Girl and Kim: A Novel Idea. She has an MFA from Syracuse University and lives in Montreal.
