Flee

Tim Raymond's debut novel, Flee, details the life of autistic, grieving Jensen Fisher, who hasn't left his apartment in South Korea in five years. But with a novel pandemic on the rise that's turning humans into beluga whales, he is forced to embark, with his student and cat in tow, on a quest to return to America and his hometown in Wyoming one final time. There's a wonder to the story, even among the devastation.