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Humankind is in danger.

The Year of the Fruitcake tells of the Earth-based life of a mostly-mindwiped alien anthropologist inhabiting a human perimenopausal body instead of her own more rational body with its capacity to change gender. This alien has definitely shaken a great intergalactic empire by sitting in cafés with her new best friends. Chocolate may or may not have played a part. Will humanity survive?

Polack describes her novel as, “Bleak. It’s political. It’s angry. It’s also sarcastic, cynical and funny.”

• The Year of the Fruit Cake
• Author: Gillian Polack
• Australian English
• ISBN: 978-1-925759-91-4 trade paperback
• ISBN: 978-1-925759-92-1 ebook
• RRP: US$18.99 trade paperback US$5.99 ebook
• Publisher: IFWG Publishing International
• Science Fiction Novel
• 332 pages – paperback English
• Binding: Perfect bound
• Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm
• Purchase ebook or trade paperback here or through our distributor (IPG Books)
• Key Words: science fiction, feminism, Australia, satire, humour
• Publication Date: August 2019 (North America – 16 September 2019)
• Distributor: World-wide through IPG (IPG specific in North America, New South Books (partner) in Australia/New Zealand.

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