Kathy is a writer. Katie is getting married. It's summer 2017 and the world is falling apart. Olivia Lange transforms her first novel into a stunning, funny and raw tale of love in the time of the apocalypse.Like a 21st-century Goodbye Berlin, Crudo depicts the turbulent summer of 2017 in real time from the perspective of a fearful commitments by Kathy Acker, or maybe not by Kathy Acker. In an extremely expensive Tuscan hotel and a Brexit-paralyzed UK, Katie spends the first summer of her 40s trying to get used to marriage. But she's not the only one that's changing. The political, social and natural landscapes are all in danger. Fascism is growing, the truth is dead, and the planet is hot. Is it even worth learning to love when the end of the world is so close? And how to create, not to mention how to live, when one malicious tweet can end everything.Publisher's layout saved in A4 PDF.