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Book SynopsisAn exhilarating and intimate look at what happened when the pandemic emptied the cityand a rebellious energy reclaimed the streets
Trade Review"In its gentle way this is the most radical book I have read in a long time. It’s a tale of daily resistance. There could be another world, and
Feral City in all its thoughtful scrappy investigative feeling is a map for the utopian future I would want to inhabit. It’s composed uncannily, yep, rhizomatically, out of Jeremiah Moss’s own hands-on evocation of home, the disordered place where we’re playing and marching." -- Eileen Myles
"This is a sublime and furious love letter to our city during the plague—to the months when we reclaimed our streets and lived most vividly even in the midst of death. A must for every New Yorker, and for everyone who has ever loved a place." -- Molly Crabapple
"Jeremiah Moss grapples with what happened when the private sector left the city at the height of the pandemic, and the people who share public space were left behind. Who is the center of our culture? Who just owns the apparatus? What confrontations are necessary for our integrity as a collective? This story is a memory, a documentary, a personal journey, a political manifesto, a searing critique, a human embrace." -- Sarah Schulman
"The saddest and the most exhilarating book you will read this year. It is an epic of a liberated city, a philosophical investigation, a love poem addressed to at least a million New Yorkers, and a hex flung at those zombies Moss calls the Normals." -- Lucy Sante
