The Unwanted

Fishman's worldbuilding is impeccable.... He skillfully ramps up the tension.... Fans of dystopian classics like 1984 will find much to savor in Fishman's spellbinding tale."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The Unwanted is a tightrope of a novel: tense, precise, stunning in its scope and power."--Tea Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Morningside "Urgently contemporary and prescient in equal measure, Fishman's The Unwanted channels the spectrum of literature's finest, emotionally visceral dystopian masterworks, from Dune to The Handmaid's Tale, in a fable of survival, resistance and, ultimately, maternal love."--Lea Carpenter, author of Ilium Award-winning, New York Times Notable author of A Replacement Life--"a born storyteller with a tremendous gift for language" (San Francisco Chronicle)-- delivers a fierce and staggering new page-turner full of cruelty, tenderness, and heroism, about a young girl and her parents fleeing civil war and the brutal dictatorship that has targeted their family. Susanna, George, and their eight-year-old daughter, Dina, have been lucky, so far, in these four years since war broke out in their country.