Little Push

WHITE PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE EXTINCT, AREN’T THEY? Lorenna Ci is the final waitress of the fast food restaurant Little Push, at its most remote branch of Crater Isle in the eastern straits of the Hexi Corridor. Her only concern is serving customers and ensuring that their bodies are properly disposed of once they drop dead. It’s been 100 years since The Falling, since The Void - a serotonin cancer - took hold, since the Middle Kingdom rose from the ashes and turned once again to the God of Heaven for mercy. The western world, like most of the east, is no more. But when a white man, riddled with amnesia, arrives in Crater Isle during a deadly sandstorm, Lorenna is faced with questions that underpin the lives of the Middle Kingdom’s people, its reinstated monarchy and its holy governors, The Oval. Little Push presents a unique portrait of post-apocalyptic China. Humanity’s relationship with faith and the quest for truth in this first instalment of an epic three-part series.