Description
Autistic, grieving Jensen Fisher hasn’t left his apartment in South Korea in five years. But when a novel pandemic begins turning humans into beluga whales, he must upend his carefully constructed life and strike out into the unknown. With his student and cat in tow, he embarks on a final, desperate quest to reach his hometown in Wyoming. A novel of wonder, devastation, and unforgettable adventure, Tim Raymond’s Flee asks the all-important question: how do you find your place when the world is falling apart?
Praise for Tim Raymond
While FLEE is ostensibly an epic journey of survival, at its core it’s a tender meditation on memory, the pain and pleasure of existence, and the contradictions that make us human. To read Raymond’s prose is to let your soul get carried away, to feel alive and connected to the world.
— Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl
I don’t know how Tim Raymond pulled this off – deadpan and deceptively casual, this novel will wreck you. Funny, unsettling, and full of heart – I finished it and wanted to start again. Jensen Fisher is a narrator I would follow anywhere.
— Karan Kapoor, ONLY POEMS editor and co-founder
Flee is a novel that is able to think and feel at the same time. Tim Raymond delivers a book full of precision and ache.
— David Gate, author of A Rebellion of Care
About Tim Raymond
Tim Raymond is an autistic and nonbinary writer based in South Korea. Their fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Chicago Quarterly Review, Joyland, and Witness, among other publications. They contribute comics to ONLY POEMS regularly and post stories and… MORE