Edge Tourism: Seven Last Holidays

What happens when the world runs out of horizon — and someone still needs to manage the itinerary? In *Edge Tourism: Seven Last Holidays*, debut author Chiamaka Osei delivers a sharply observed, darkly comic collection of interconnected stories set against the backdrop of humanity's final package tours. As civilisation quietly unravels at the edges, HorizonEdge Holidays continues to offer fully inclusive experiences to destinations that may not exist much longer — and the customers, as always, have questions about the bar prices. At the heart of the book stands Delia Purslow, a tour representative of extraordinary composure and laminated schedules, leading twelve carefully mismatched tourists toward Edge Station Gamma — a polar research outpost that looks nothing like its brochure. Around her orbit Gerald Fitch, a man for whom Tenerife solved most of life's questions; Oksana Brecht, who corrects pronunciation as a form of self-defence; and Yuen-Mei Draper, filming everything from behind a phone screen held at the precise angle of quiet judgment. Osei's writing is precise, wry, and deeply human. She finds comedy in the collision between institutional optimism and stubborn reality, between the laminated schedule and the potholed ice road. But beneath the sharp humour runs something more tender: an exploration of why people seek out last chances, what they hope to find at the edge of things, and what it means to keep smiling when the world has started to come apart at the seams. *Edge Tourism* is essential reading for fans of darkly comic literary fiction — a book that asks what we owe each other at the end, and whether the gift shop will be open when we get there.