Eradication

In Eradication, Jonathan Miles tackles the brutal paradoxes of ecological conservation with both unflinching clarity and comedic flair. When saving an imperilled Eden means eliminating [sacrificing?] one species - whose only crime is to “refuse to stop living”- to protect dozens more, there are no easy answers. A deft, unsettling exploration of what it means to play God

– Maria Reva, author of EndlingBeautifully weird, eerie, unexpected - a story for our times, and all powered by the writer’s tremendous narrative imagination – Kevin Barry, author of The Heart in WinterA work of genius. From the beginning Adi is an endearing castaway of sorts, marooned from his former life, well-employed but hopelessly ill-suited to the grim job at hand. But strangely the best possible witness to his own (our own) role in the natural and unnatural order, whatever that may be. What struck me is the way Miles can pivot seamlessly, symphonically, from a fist-gnawing comedy of errors to a heartbreaking requiem for a habitat, a world, a near-extinct Reed Warbler, a son, resolving into a shocking and defiant denouement. Eradication is a beautiful and devastating novel. – Luke KennardMiles’s taut, powerful fable pits an everyman against seemingly insurmountable environmental and personal problems. * Shelf Awareness *[Eradication] blew me out of my socks… . Short and powerful … The second I finished it, I immediately reread it. * Susan Casey, author of Voices in the Ocean *Excellent * New York Times *