Genre-defying, one-of-a-kind reads.
HOW MY BOOKS ARE UNIQUE
People in the book world have described my first two novels as “literary + [insert name of genre].” My theory is that agents and editors say a book is literary when they believe the writing quality is high, but the book does not fall neatly into a genre (thriller, mystery, romance, etc.). You’ll likely enjoy at least one of my books if you’re interested in any of these themes:
- Coping with mental illness
- Multiracial characters
- Depictions of the afterlife
- Repression
- Ambition
- Criticisms of neoliberal politics and culture
- Coping with mental illness
- Multiracial characters
- Depictions of the afterlife
- Repression
- Ambition
- Criticisms of neoliberal politics and culture
“Never Let Me Go” and “Brave New World” meet “Turtles All the Way Down” in a near future where a teen with mental illness becomes the center of seismic change.
Chester Owens’ life has been strictly controlled and meticulously observed—but he’s about to find out what’s really going on at the corporation that raised him.
“Rauch imaginatively conjures an entire underworld…A richly creative meditation on love, mortality, and the possibility of what lies beyond.” –Kirkus Reviews
This imaginative modernization of The Inferno follows a widower from San Diego’s journey through the afterlife, and the moral dilemmas he encounters there.
