Winterlong

This first novel is a richly imagined work set in a Washington, D.C., devastated by nuclear and biological warfare. Society is rigidly stratified: the Ascendants, absentee rulers who were responsible for the devastation; the Curators, who tend the city’s nearly destroyed museums and libraries; the Paphians, who barter sexual favors for goods; and the Lazars, wretched survi….Read More