June’s Book of the Month: An imaginative ecofiction novel | MADISON MAGAZINE

In “The Unmapping,” Madison author Denise S. Robbins’ debut novel, New York City residents wake one morning to find the power grid is down, their neighbors are missing and their buildings have been swapped — even Manhattan’s Empire State Building has somehow jumped over to Brooklyn. Emergency management workers Esme Green (whose fiancé is one of the missing) and Arjun Varma spend the day in crisis mode sorting things out — only to wake up the next morning to find it’s all happened again. As humanity grapples with the mysterious phenomenon of cities “unmapping” themselves daily, the reader ponders how we respond and adapt to unpredictable disasters. (Out June 3, Bindery Books)

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Maggie Ginsberg is a senior editor at Madison Magazine and author of the novel “Still True,” winner of the WLA Literary Award for Fiction.