A New Year

Albert Valiaveedu's final novel, A New Year, is set in a far future where things are not always how they seem. Trapped on a forgotten island, read the interweaving stories of twelve different characters trying to make sense of a confusing world. Meet Arietta Santiago, a skilled electrician at the Dead Iron Works Shipyard, Dæme Fuse, the absent leader of the island, and Verzalene Jaṭā, a talented, yet very stubborn, mariner. Premiering on Veterans Day 2020, A New Year explores the ideas of globalization and compromise in a complicated future.