In 2018, The Walrus published an excerpt from Jason Guriel’s then forthcoming Forgotten Work, an ambitious verse novel which would eventually appear in 2020—and which the New York Times would declare “unlikely, audacious and ingenious.”
Last month, Biblioasis published Guriel’s second verse novel, The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles. Set in the same universe as Forgotten Work and composed in rhyming couplets, Guriel’s epic new book is already drawing accolades; Liz Braswell, in the Wall Street Journal, writes, “Without question this is the most imaginative piece of young-adult-adjacent fiction I have ever read. It’s a big wolfy huff-and-puff of fresh air in a genre swamped with tired plots and love triangles.”
