TY - BOOK AU - Laing,Olivia TI - Crudo: a novel SN - 9780393652727 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Company KW - Women authors KW - Fiction KW - Current events KW - Twenty-first century KW - Romance fiction KW - lcgft KW - Humorous fiction KW - Novels N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-141) N2 - Kathy, a writer, is getting married. She spends the first summer of her forties adjusting to the idea of a lifelong commitment. But it's not only Kathy who's changing: it's the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever-closer to nuclear war. How do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all? -- adapted from jacket ER -