The Author
Ptolemy Jordan lives and writes in the New York City area.
He has been a writer his entire life, ever since watching his father mercilessly attack an ancient typewriter in their dining room in Takoma Park, Maryland. He was fascinated by the art of storytelling — how an entirely new world could come to life with nothing but ink on a page.
He loves to tell new stories and weave together new worlds, reimagining the world as it is, or as it could be. Burning Man is his debut novel, a post-apocalyptic literary novel set in the ruins of New York City.
He is working on his next book.
About the Book
Burning Man is a post-apocalyptic literary novel set in the ruins of New York City. It follows Daniel — a man who wakes from a year-long coma into a world that has quietly ended — as he moves through the silence searching for his family.
The novel explores what grief looks like when the normal structures of mourning have collapsed alongside everything else: no funerals, no certainties, no one to tell you it's time to stop looking. Against that backdrop, Daniel encounters a city that has reorganised itself around survival, and survivors who have been changed by the blasts in ways that resist easy explanation.
Part road novel, part psychological portrait, Burning Man is ultimately a story about what it means to be still burning when everything around you has turned to ash.
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