Part hallucination, part queer bildungsroman, Never Was is a
beautifully strange novel about grief, addiction and working-class
masculinity, taking us from a limbo of lost dreams to a small
salt-mining town and exploring the way identity is both inherited
and re-invented. Daniel sits on a clifftop in the aftermath of a
party at Fin's mansion, looking out over a junky sea. Daniel's not
sure why they're there, or who Fin is, even though Fin seems to be
somebody famous. To find out, Daniel must tell Fin the story of
their childhood, going back to a small salt-mining town in The
North, a visit from their now-estranged cousin Crystal, and the
life and losses of their salt-miner father, Mika. Taking us from
bus shelters to playgrounds to McDonalds, from the depth of a salt
mine to a nightclub toilet, Daniel describes their world of soap
operas, sunglasses, newspaper clippings and Princess Diana,
steering Fin through the events that led up to The Great
Subsidence, when their town and the mine that sustained it
collapsed. As Daniel tells their story, they come to learn they're
in a place called Never Was, a limbo for lost dreams and
disappointments, a landfill for things that never came to be, but
also a place of change and transition. Dreamy, poignant, and
revelatory, Never Was is a bold and inventive novel by an
inimitable voice in literary fiction.
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