'An audacious first novel to set beside Margaret Atwood's provocative first novel The Edible
Woman ' JOYCE CAROL OATES 'Intimate nostalgic and downright terrifying' OLIVIA GATWOOD
'An all-American fever dream' LEE CLAY JOHNSON
_____________________________________________________________________________ It starts with
an itch. In 1970s America in homes across the country women ages eighteen to thirty-five
begin to slow down. Tired. Blank. Restless. Drawn to the Pacific Ocean like it's calling
them home they abandon their lives -- jobs families their very selves. And once they reach
the West they vanish forever. At the center of the story are three young women caught in the
pull of something unstoppable. Aimee follows the trail of her missing best friend to a man
called the Piper -- known for leading infected women West. Teenie afflicted and unraveling
clings to a single memory as she looks out the window of the Piper's van. And Eve a former
journalist is chasing the story that might just consume her...
_____________________________________________________________________________ 'A speculative
feminist road trip thriller unlike any other' GINA CHUNG 'Taut and shocking' ANNA NORTH
