THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ONLY AND WILL BE RELEASED ON 13 APRIL 2027. A serpentine social novel starring a madcap Willy Wonka for our modern age reflects the relationships between family dysfunction, personal faith, and inescapable global catastrophe. An asteroid is hurtling toward earth with the potential to wipe out humanity - but for Jupiter Candy Company, profits are soaring! Catastrophe has always been good for the candy business.In Nicole White’s debut novel, two dozen characters from all walks of life become ever more intertwined with the Livingstone family and their candy empire. Beginning with the patriarch Bernard’s death and the ensuing battle for power over Jupiter’s multinational operations, White chronicles the daily mundanities of life before the apocalypse. We meet Bernard’s son, Eugene, as he takes over the company, and his two adult children: Russ, a high school gym teacher who’s found himself in hot water with a student, and Beth, a scientist suspected of academic fraud. Meanwhile, his wife, Lois, is a philanthropist with a benzo addiction. Maggie, a closeted lesbian tradwife and reluctant evangelical joins Reverend Keyes, who has been forcibly baptizing nonbelievers. Julia, 17, believes she’s been chosen by God to usher in the new order after the Rapture, and Marty just wants his terminally ill brother to give him some slack. In Jupiter Saves!, White has written a brilliantly zany collective portrait of a society at its breaking point and a family holding onto power by any means necessary.
