From the world of Gabrielle Korn's Yours for the Taking comes The Shutouts, a brilliant queer dystopian novel following a cast of characters on the margins of a strange and exclusive new society. The year is 2041, and it's a dangerous time to be a woman driving across the United States alone. Deadly storms and uncontrollable wildfires are pummeling the country while political tensions are rising. But Kelly's on the road anyway; she desperately needs to get back to her daughter, who she left seven years ago for a cause that she's no longer sure she believes in. Almost 40 years later, another mother, Ava, and her daughter Brook are on the run as well, from the climate change relief program known as The Inside Project, where they've spent the past 22 years being treated as lab rats. When they encounter a woman from Ava’s past on the side of the highway, the three continue on in a journey that will take them into the depths of what remains of humanity out in the wilderness. At the same time, way up North, weather conditions continue to worsen and a settlement departs in search of greener pastures, leaving behind only two members, drawn together by a circumstance and a mystery they are destined to unravel together. A captivating story of those who have been shut out from Inside, their fight to survive, and an interconnectedness larger than all of them. Praise for The Shutouts: Goodreads, Most Anticipated Books for Fall Harper's Bazaar , Best Books to Read in Fall 2024 Them , Best LGBTQ+ Books from 2024 Lit Hub , December's Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Chicago Review of Books, Must Read Books in December Autostraddle , Most Anticipate Queer Books "Propulsive." ― People Magazine "A perfect blend of sadness and hope...A page-turning queer, feminist dystopia." ― Kirkus Reviews "[A] tense tale of climate collapse, survival, and conspiracies... The narrative is made harrowingly plausible by the author’s skillful exploration of alarming choices made by people in power and survivors’ attempts to forge communities. It’s another winner from Korn." ― Publishers Weekly "[ The Shutouts ] shifts its critique from corporate white feminism to the sinister side of activist culture and cults of personality....Readers seeking cli-fi that celebrates queer characters and survival will find this a hopeful look at the future even after disaster." ― Library Journal "Set in a dystopian future that’s uncomfortably likely, Korn’s characters find joy nevertheless in queer friendships, parenthood, romance, and sex. This isn’t a sugarcoated, sappy kind of book; the world Korn writes about is real, painful, and has consequences... It’s a book I really needed right now, and I suspect you might, too." ― Them "Peers down the dark tunnel of our unsettling present and catches a glimmer of what may save us on the other side...[with] tender and urgent prose." ― Chicago Review of Books “With The Shutouts , Gabrielle Korn has established herself as one of the brilliant dystopian writers of our generation. This book broke my heart but it also gave me immense hope. It made me cry and laugh and hug my babies and believe in people and in all the ways we take care of each other.” ―Marisa Crane, author of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself Praise for Yours For the Taking : Harper’s Bazaar , The Best Queer Reads of 2023 Elle , Our Favorite Books of 2023 New York Times Best Books of December 2023 Los Angeles Times Best Books of December 2023 Women’s Health , LGBTQ+ Books That Make Queer People Feel Seen LGBTQ+ Reads , Most Anticipated Adult Fiction The Millions , Most Anticipated "Korn manages to grapple with weighty topics while also delivering a compelling read, rife with twists." ― Elle "An alluring story of a feminist dystopia... Korn’s conceits are as provocative as her characters are well-rounded. Readers will eat up this distinctive work of climate fiction." ― Publishers Weekly "Korn's premise couldn't be more timely....this novel sparkles." ― Kirkus Reviews "An intriguing exploration of how 'saving the world' can become warped by ego and ideology. Korn’s timely fiction debut indicts exclusionary corporate feminism." ― Library Journal "An immersive, future-focused, and highly engaging thought experiment that’s startlingly relevant to today’s society." ― Booklist "Gatekeeping girlboss insidiousness, climate injustice and ecological inequality, love in the time of perpetual apocalypse―Korn’s thrilling work of speculative fiction, about billionaire-funded bubbles designed to seal off select people from inhospitable living conditions, trains a big, queer black mirror on the sociopolitical iniquities of our time." ― Electric Literature "Stunning...a bracing, exhilarating read." ―Esmé Weijun Wang, New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias "Thrilling...with exquisite worldbuilding and a cast of complicated, multifarious characters, Yours for the Taking is a spectacular saga about the folly