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The Vivisectors

The Vivisectors

Williams, Missouri

Hardcover

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 0374619298
ISBN13: 9780374619299
Publisher: MCD
Published: May 26 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE

One of Vulture's Most Anticipated Books of 2026

Missouri Williams writes with a gothic angularity that puts her in a category of one. She swims in deep waters and surfaces now as a major writer for our age. --Paul Lynch, author of Prophet Song, winner of the Booker Prize

A reclusive graduate student is forced into a friendship that destabilizes her life in this surreal, allegorical romance.

In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by nature, where power is held in a fragile balance between academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners, the reclusive narrator of The Vivisectors spends her days propping up the career of her needy and fraudulent professor boss. Then a controversy ruptures her careful routine: Adam, a contrarian student and an obsession of the boss, comes into heated conflict with a young professor, with both men claiming discrimination. The crisis subsumes the university, though the narrator is unmoved--not even the attempted suicide of her estranged mother has been enough to dispel her lack of engagement with the world. But when her boss commands her to befriend Adam, the narrator finds herself both caught up in the events threatening to tear the city apart and increasingly drawn to the alluring student at the heart of it all.

Coursing with icy suspense and told with violent precision, The Vivisectors is a new kind of love story for an age of deteriorated communication. With the unsparing style and intellectual ambition that made her award-winning debut The Doloriad a celebrated provocation, Missouri Williams holds a mirror up to humanity's most intimate contradictions and reflects them back through a novel of profound, spiky spiritual reckoning.

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