Strange Spain by Dan Julian

Fiction

pages

8.5” x 5.5” single signature with hand sewn binding

Published September 2022

“It feels like there’s no way to win here without losing something." In 2050s Spain, sea levels and xenophobia are on the rise. Natives wear holo-tattoos that glow with nationalistic pride, while immigrants are pressured to have brain-altering surgeries to be accepted by society.Tomás and Jane have avoided the procedure, but as they build a new life for their family, they witness more and more evidence of something mangled and rotten in the country they now call home. With six stark and sharply-written snapshots into their lives, Dan Julian holds up a funhouse mirror to his own experiences as an immigrant to Spain, and shows us a vision of Spain's future that feels as immediate as it does eerily prophetic.