The newly nameless narrator ofMake Sure You Die Screaminghas rejected the gender binary, has flamed out with a vengeance at their corporate gig, is most likely brain damaged from a major tussle with their now ex-boyfriend, and is on a bender to end all benders.

A call from their mother with the news that their MAGA-friendly, conspiracy-theorist father has gone missing launches the narrator from Chicago to deep red Arkansas in a stolen car. Along the way, the narrator and their new bestiea self-proclaimed “garbage goth” with her own emotional baggage (and someone on her tail)unpack the narrators childhood and a recent personal loss that they refuse to face head-on.

An unflinching interrogation of class rage, economic (im)mobility, gender expression, and the rot at the heart of capitalism,Make Sure You Die Screamingis the loud, funny, tragic, suspenseful road trip novel of our times.