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Harper
February 2016
On Sale: February 16, 2016
Featuring: Samuel Braithwhite; Atticus Turner; Montrose Turner
ISBN: 0062292064
EAN: 9780062292063
Kindle: B00UG61LNS
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The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the
terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering
effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the
imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and
Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing,
22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road
trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle
George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his
childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of
Mr. Braithwhite—heir to the estate that owned one of
Atticus’s ancestors—they encounter both mundane terrors of
white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out
of the weird tales George devours. At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held
prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient
Dawn—led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb—which has
gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on
Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of
his—and the whole Turner clan’s—destruction. A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that
stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black
families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic
portrait of racism—the terrifying specter that continues to
haunt us today.
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