CHINA LAKE
A BOOK ABOUT THE STRANGEST PLACE IN AMERICA… AND A TECHNOLOGY THAT WILL SAVE OR END OUR WORLD
Named a best book of 2017 by Brooklyn Rail & Kirkus
“An apocalypse of the weird. A brilliant, often hilarious, and thoroughly original work of nonfiction.”
—Richard Preston, best-selling author of The Hot Zone
Winner 2016 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. Published by University of Iowa Press.
“An astonishing debut.”
—John D’Agata, author of The Lifespan of a Fact
“A scream into the void... A devastating artistic achievement.”
—Anna Call, Foreword Reviews
“An urgent and terrifying cultural reflection, a startling look in the mirror.”
—Kirkus (Starred Review)
“Baumgart's ecstatic prose achieves a kind of transcendence.”
—Landon Bates, Los Angeles Review of Books
“Haunting and hallucinatory... consistently masterful...”
—Christine Chi, Brooklyn Rail
“An important book, marking the appearance of a talented and distinctive new literary voice.”
—David S. Whitley, PhD, author, Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit: The Origin of Creativity and Belief
“Remarkable… terrifying… China Lake gets at something alarming and true about nature and human nature.”
—David Shields, author, Reality Hunger