Review: Mad Eden by Morgan Thomas

I think I have developed a fondness for book front covers that opt for a minimalist design language while still getting across something about the book. This jacket design for Mad Eden is by Charlotte Grimm. I felt it sometimes when biting into a slice of garden-grown cucumber marinated in balsamic or diving into the ever-cool waters of the spring, how the state mounted a threat to our joy, how the state seemed increasingly to want to destroy it, and how we, therefore, guarded the joy more steadfastly. page 6 Table of ContentsWhy Mad Eden?The BookTime and MemoryTrans RepresentationConcluding Thoughts Why Mad Eden? I first heard about Mad Eden through a bookshop.org newsletter shortly at the time of its release in June 2026. I thought that the premise sounded intriguing and it had multiple axis of representation I was interested in – character(s) on the autism spectrum, and also trans masculine characters. The latter of which is quite rare in contemporary fiction in my experience. I…