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The creator of Good Neighbors, “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American suburbia I’ve ever read,” (NPR), returns with a cunning, out-of-the-box satirical thriller about a circle of relatives’s odyssey into an distinctive enclave for the wealthy that might not be as ideal because it seems.
You’ll be safe right here. That’s what the greasy tour guide tells the Farmer-Bowens when they visit Plymouth Valley, a walled-off corporation town with easy air, pantries that by no means move empty, and blue-ribbon faculties. On a very trial basis, the agency offers to rent Linda Farmer’s husband, a numbers genius, and relocate her complete circle of relatives to this bucolic paradise for the .0001%. Though Linda will ought to sacrifice her scientific profession lower back home, the own family jumps on the possibility. They’d be crazy now not to take it. With the outside global actually falling aside, this might be the Farmer-Bowens final chance.
But fitting in takes work. The pampered locals distrust outsiders, cruelly snubbing Linda, Russell, and their teenager twins. And the citizens fervently adhere to a group of customs and ideals known as Hollow . . . But what exactly is Hollow?
It’s Linda who agents attractiveness with the aid of volunteering her scientific skills to the maximum powerful people in town with their pet charity, ActHollow. In the months afterward, everything seems high-quality. Sure, Russell starts hyperventilating via a paper bag within the nighttime, and the youngsters have drifted like bridgeless islands, but dwelling right here’s really worth sacrificing their circle of relatives’s closeness, isn’t it? At least they’ll continue to exist. The trouble is, the locals in no way say what they suppose. They seem scared. And Hollow’s ominous culminating event, the Plymouth Valley Winter Festival, is coming.
Linda’s warned via her husband and her powerful new pals to forestall asking questions. But the greater she learns, the extra nervous she becomes. Should the Farmer-Bowens be combating to live, or preventing to get out?
Sarah Langan’s modern novel A Better World is gleefully ruthless in its dissection of wealth, strength, and privilege, well timed in its depiction of a self-destructing global—and it is a prescient caution to us all.
Sarah Langan, a Columbia MFA graduate and 3-time recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, is the author of several novels consisting of A Better World and Good Neighbors. She grew up on Long Island and she currently lives in Los Angeles along with her husband and daughters.
Book details
- Publisher : Atria Books (April 9, 2024)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1982191066
- ISBN-13 : 978-1982191061
- Item Weight : 1.14 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #55,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,599 in Psychological Thrillers (Books)
- #4,293 in Literary Fiction (Books)
- #5,962 in Suspense Thrillers
