In Universes

In Universes is a dazzling and inventive exploration of the many people we might become, the possibilities we might discover, and the heartbreak we can't run from. This novel is a breathtaking introduction to a brilliant new voice

Danielle Evans, , award-winning author of The Office of Historical Corrections

Emet North beautifully fractures the veil between genres, weaving a kaleidoscopic journey of identity, love, and the choices that make us. This is a multiverse where both tender and painful childhood memories echo through the dark matter of adulthood and finds its way to post-apocalyptic gardens of the dead. An assured and wildly imaginative debut that never loses its heart in any of its realities

Sequoia Nagamatsu, bestselling author of How High We Go in the Dark

In Universes is an explosion of creative beauty and heart. Emet North is a massively talented writer arriving ready to awe.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, New York Times bestselling author of Chain Gang All Stars

Beautiful and surreal, In Universes is a tenderly-crafted maze that brims with emotion—despair and regret, love and hope—as it wrestles with the endless seeking of self and the ‘what-ifs’ that define a life.

Fonda Lee, author of The Green Bone Saga and winner of the World Fantasy Award

A soul-stirring debut . . . This crackling chronicle of queer love is a must read

Publishers Weekly

Bafflingly good. In Universes is an exhilarating, disorienting fabulist extravaganza to which we can only, and happily, submit. But it is also, secretly - and brilliantly - kind of a meta-novel about the melancholia of science fiction itself

Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox

Daring, brilliant, and revelatory, In Universes scatters its characters’ stories across the multiverse, showing us every one of the infinite lives we might live. It’s a miracle of physics and art, filled with wonder and grief, hope and regret, survival and romance and loss. By its end, we know: the best of all possible worlds is this one where we get to read Emet North’s writing

Julia Phillips, bestselling author of Disappearing Earth

In Universes has a wonderous way of taking the full expanse of the heart (vast! unending!) and collapsing it into a jeweled beauty you can hold in your hands. This novel is brainy and surprising and - in a cartwheeling, star-spinning way - completely real

Ramona Ausubel, author of The Last Animal

A magical, bighearted, genre-jumping ode to queerness and the breaking and re-making of reality

Bustle

Blends great storytelling with serious contemplation of what the many-worlds theory could mean for questions of identity, life, death, and more . . . Read this when you need a bit of hope and uplift

Lit Hub

An extraordinary debut novel where we see the same key characters lead lives across the multiverse. A little bit WandaVision, a little bit Everything Everywhere All at Once, this is a story I’m dying to see dramatized

ELLE

Time-bending, mind-expanding

People

North's ability to capture the essence of queer experiences with authenticity and empathy sets this work apart, offering readers a tender and insightful look into the myriad ways we seek to find our place in the world

Glamour