August 12, 2026
The Works of Vermin is at once a vibrant fantastical world and an eerie commentary on class inequality and social structures. Environmental toxins affecting both lower and upper classes are also the rare resources coveted by elites; characters’ lives are shaped by contracts of employment and marriage. Ennes’s prose is an extension of their world: both both excessively filthy and excessively fragrant, and a little opaque. Transformation and mystery are threads that carry the story through this inventive book.
–Shannon, Third Street Books, McMinnville, OR
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