The Vanishing Act, the debut novel by Eoin Connolly, follows Colm, an anxious and isolated copywriter whose days are spent scrolling through his phone, worrying about climate catastrophe, and sharing takeout with his inexplicably talking cat, Gazdanov. After watching the foreign minister of Tuvalu deliver a press conference while standing knee-deep in rising ocean water, Colm becomes consumed by the idea of reducing his own burden on the planet and decides to disappear—first from the internet and then, increasingly, from the world itself. Both apocalyptic satire and tragicomedy, the novel explores climate anxiety, digital overload, loneliness, and the increasingly desperate ways we try to make sense of a world in crisis.
The Vanishing Act will be published on February 23, 2027, by Catapult and is available for preorder now.
Eoin Connolly is an Irish writer based in Lisbon and a recipient of a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. His short stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, BOMB, and elsewhere.
Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of The Vanishing Act, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by Nicole Caputo, along with a Q&A with Connolly about its creation.
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