Mist: A Novel
"Dixa Ashariel Ramirez’s Mist is a generic chimaera, blending satire, mystery, and the cult-novel, interwoven with humming, thrumming threads of ancient spirituality.”
Anya Lewis-Meeks, novelist and professor of literary arts in Apogee Journal. Read the full interview here.
“I read this book during a long weekend. I could not put it down. I was blown away by the author's creativity and ambitious subject matter.”
RachelT, Amazon.com reviewer (5 stars rating)
"What if the worst people you know making the worst art imaginable were not only deciding the future of your career but were somehow hijacking your cosmic destiny too? Josefina, Mist’s reluctant heroine goes to war against the shady forces conspiring against her and other Black women in academia armed with a fabulous wardrobe, hefty liquor cabinet, and a chaotic group chat. Hijinks, horror, and revelations ensue. I couldn’t put it down."
Marina Bilbija, professor of English at Wesleyan University
It is 2019 and Josefina Pujols, an overachieving professor going up for tenure at Tanner University (“The Ninth Ivy”), watches in dismay as social media popularity threatens to take over the academic standards she had been rigorously trained to uphold. Online shopping, group chat, and an alcohol problem palliate her encounters with an inbox full of increasingly ludicrous requests from her colleagues.
When Doralis Montero, who had mysteriously quit her prestigious professorship two years earlier, reaches out and explains the sinister reasons behind her disappearance, Jo leaps into a research rabbit hole teeming with South American Nazi villages, racial impostors, and ancient AI. Despite the life-threatening risks inherent to this research project, Jo glows with newfound purpose.
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