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"THE OCCIDENT is that rare thing: a dystopian thriller that is also a stylishly written novel of ideas, a funhouse in whose distorting mirrors can be caught disturbing glimpses of the way we live now—and the way we die now. THE OCCIDENT will quicken your pulse, and it may trouble your dreams, but it will also make you laugh and think—about our dread of contagion, the cruel absurdities of 21st-century capitalism, the politics of urban renewal, the aesthetics of concrete, and much, much else."

—Donovan Hohn, author of Moby Duck and The Inner Coast

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“Filled with beauteous, beguiling wonders—giants of the deep, towers that stretch to infinity—but the most affecting magic here is profoundly human: the unknowability of others (and of ourselves); the mysteries of love and loss. Morse conjures the fantastic with such gorgeous, vivid precision we yearn for it to be real.

—Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl and A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself