
Product Description <br/>A Recommended Book from CrimeReads<br/>From Nebula Award winner Sam J. Miller comes a frightening and uncanny ghost story about a rapidly changing city in upstate New York and the mysterious forces that threaten it.<br/>Ronan Szepessy promised himself hed never return to Hudson. The sleepy upstate town was no place for a restless gay photographer. But his father is ill and New York Citys distractions have become too much for him. He hopes that a quick visit will help him recharge. <br/>Ronan reconnects with two friends from high school: Dom, his first love, and Doms wife, Attalah. The three former misfits mourn what their town has becomeoverrun by gentrifiers and corporate interests. With friends and neighbors getting evicted en masse and a mayoral election coming up, Ronan and Attalah craft a plan to rattle the newcomers and expose their true motives. But in doing so, they unleash something far more mysterious and uncontainable. <br/>Hudson has a rich, proud history and, it turns out, the real-state developers arent the only forces threatening its well-being: the spirits undergirding this once-thriving industrial town are enraged. Ronans hijinks have overlapped with a bubbling up of hate and violence among friends and neighbors, and everything is spiraling out of control. Ronan must summon the very best of himself to shed his own demons and save the city he once loathed.<br/> Review <br/>"As addictive and brutal as it is smart and challenging."-- "Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World"<br/> About the Author <br/>Sam J. Miller lives in New York City with his husband. He is the winner of the 2018 Andre Norton Award for his YA debut novel, The Art of Starving. His fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Award, was longlisted for the Hugo Award, and has won the Shirley Jackson Award. Sam is also the author of the adult fiction novel Blackfish City. V
Page Count:
0
Publication Date:
2020-12-01
ISBN-10:
1799945839
ISBN-13:
9781799945833
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