The Consequences

$5000 marketing and publicity budget International book promotion and book review solicitation ARCs and Goodreads giveaways Aggressive promotion to libraries at ALA Galleys available through Edelweiss Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements Book launch at LitQuake in San Francisco, followed by West Coast and Chicago author tour Social media promotion Co-promotion and author tour supported by the Dutch Literature Foundation

This award-winning, raucous debut novel follows young Minnie Panis, performance artist and existentialist, as she tries to refuse success and fame.

An amazing game of mirrors. […] Original and promising.

—LE MONDE

2014 Anton Wachter Prize for Best First Novel

Golden Book Owl Reader's Choice Award

Opzij Feminist Literature Prize

2014 Lucy B. & C.W. van der Hoogt Prize.

MEET MINNIE PANIS, a young and talented conceptual artist navigating love affairs, her unexpected success in the art world, and her relationship with an emotionally distant mother. After surviving a near-death experience falling through the ice during her ultimate artwork, Minnie begins to uncover the truth behind her premature birth with the help of the doctor who saves her life—as it turns out—twice. Entering into his clinic, whose motto is All the fish needs is to get lost in the water, Minnie arrives at the border of life’s ebb, where meaningful art and revelations occur. An intimate, often humorous exploration of the intertwining cycles of death, rebirth and coincidence, The Consequences is a Bildungsroman that echoes far beyond the last page.

Niña Weijers’ remarkable, inventive novel depicts a contemporary conceptual artist at the height of her fame, whose blasé art project has unintended consequences. Weijers invokes Kurt Vonnegut in the course of the narrative, and this novel shares Vonnegut’s sense of how things can be simultaneously real and absurd. Movies and books notoriously fail to capture the social and spiritual atmosphere of the contemporary art world, but Weijers nails it. Her book is beautifully written, surprising and often profound.

—CHRIS KRAUS