Wholesale Ibis: A Novel

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE ** A bold, witty, magical new voice in fiction, Justin Haynes weaves a cross-generational Caribbean story of migration, superstition, and a search for family in the novelIbis. “This brilliant, shape-shifting novel teems with charms and curses, stunning disasters and startling moments of grace.”—Jenny Offill, author ofDept. of SpeculationandWeather “Justin Haynes proves himself an absolute alchemist of fiction . . . This is a stunning debut as witty as is it is rapturous.”?Jericho Brown,MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize–winning author ofThe Tradition “Evoking the themes of Ovid, the language of Toni Morrison, and the genre-blending of Octavia Butler, Haynes scales the heights of his ambition. This soaring work is not to be missed.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review There is bad luck in New Felicity.