The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047

Dystopian nightmares are two-a-penny in literature but they don’t come much more plausible than this projection of a world in which the dollar goes into meltdown and economic life as we know it comes to an end. Told through the eyes of a once-wealthy family reduced to destitution, it’s an ingenious satire and a potent parable for our times.