The Sky Is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith

Smith's hyperimaginative debut takes place in a futuristic, decaying variation on New York City called Empire Island that has two dragons one green, one yellow constantly circling overhead and menacing the population below. “Readers who love ambitious literary genre fiction should be on the lookout for Smith’s first novel, a vibrantly uncanny dystopia set on an island metropolis, in the shadow of dragons that swoop overhead, where income inequality and mass incarceration have spun out of control.” - HuffPost

At the same time, it’s funny as hell, full of madcap detail, firecracker dialogue, and a healthy dose of absurdism in the face of darkness.” -NPR Much like Lev Grossman’s The Magicians and Charlie Jane Anders’s All the Birds in the Sky before it, The Sky is Yours filters youth through a warped yet poignantly canny speculative fiction lens. “Smith’s gifts of imagination are staggering. The Sky Is Yours is a great and disturbing debut, which colonizes a new realm of the magic city.” - The Wall Street Journal “It’s a mesmeric world, comic in the way teenage voyages of self-discovery inevitably are, but with an undertone of menace, horror, even hints of allegory.

In this bombshell of a novel, Chandler Klang Smith has imagined an unimaginable world: scathingly clever and gorgeously strange, The Sky Is Yours is at once faraway and disturbingly familiar, its singular chaos grounded in the universal realities of love, family, and the deeply human desire to survive at all costs. As they wander toward the scalded heart of the city, they face fire, conspiracy, mayhem, unholy drugs, dragon-worshippers, and the monsters lurking inside themselves. When violence strikes, reality star Duncan Humphrey Ripple V, the spoiled scion of the metropolis’ last dynasty Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg, his tempestuous, death-obsessed betrothed and Abby, a feral beauty he discovered tossed out with the trash, are forced to flee everything they've ever known.

In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons that circle the skies. “Influenced by the likes of Jane Austen and Rick and Morty, Smith tackles timely issues while leaving room for some delicious reality TV references.” - Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal

The Sky Is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith