Immobility (2013) by Brian Evenson

Book Review

Immobility (2013)

by Brian Evenson

   I saw this book on a list of post-apocalyptic lit on a book blog, though I can't precisely remember which one.   I do like a good book blog list, even if it seems to me like most book blogs are trying to way too hard.  They are all better than mine, of course.  I'd never heard of author Brian Evenson before, which now seems borderline strange since he occupies that narrow space between genre and literature that interests me.  Immobility is also Evenson's only  library available Audiobook.

   Evenson paints a super bleak scenario for what comes after the fall of man.  It is a barren, lifeless landscape poisonous to humans.  The narrator is something other than human, no one is really sure what, except that he doesn't die when exposed to the toxic atmosphere or earth, and he is basically immortal.  Nothing really gets explained beyond that level, and the post-collapse society that Evenson draws in this novel is more sophisticated by an order of magnitude that what you typically see in work in this creative space.