Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Adam Nemett, author of We Can Save Us All, his first novel, published just last month by The Unnamed Press.

Adam is a graduate of Princeton, the setting of this book and received his MFA from California College of the Arts.

An excerpt of this book appeared in The Apocalypse Reader, a great book by the way.


We Can Save Us All is a kind of dystopian novel, one that combines a coming disaster, or a series of them, and a band of almost former Princeton students, self-named as superheroes, who live in a compound named the Egg.

They attempt to ameliorate a coming disaster in which the world loses time in an increasingly rapid manner. This process is called chrono strict tesis

There are all kinds of coming climate change disasters as well.

So those in the egg, masterminded by Mathias, come up with a scheme the might stop or stop illusorily this wind down of time.

Our narrator is David. A kind of nebbish who still becomes a hero.

He also longs for a romance with Haley Roth, the love of his life.

She is also a heroine in this book.

In summary, this is a book that in a humorous, but instructing manner tries to show us the nature of men and women, especially young ones as they deal with the possible end of the world as we know it and remain calm and collected until the end.