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Barcode37821002552467
StatusHold Shelf
LocationMarshall District
TitleThe unveiling : a novel / Quan Barry.
AuthorBarry, Quan, author
Call NoFIC BAR
CollectionAdult New Arrivals
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International Standard Book Number 9780802165350
International Standard Book Number 0802165354
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813/.6
Personal Name Barry, Quan, author
Title Statement The unveiling : a novel / Quan Barry.
Edition Statement First edition.
Edition Statement First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Imprint New York : Grove Press, 2025.
Physical Description 304 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary, Etc. "From the award-winning poet, playwright, and author of We Ride Upon Sticks and When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East, a genre-bending novel of literary horror set in Antarctica that explores abandonment, guilt, and survival in the shadow of America's racial legacy. Striker isn't entirely sure she should be on this luxury Antarctic cruise. A Black film scout, her mission is to photograph potential locations for a big-budget movie about Ernest Shackleton's doomed expedition. Along the way, she finds private if cautious amusement in the behavior of both the native wildlife and the group of wealthy, mostly white tourists who have chosen to spend Christmas on the Weddell Sea. But when a kayaking excursion goes horribly wrong, Striker and a group of survivorsbecome stranded on a remote island along the Antarctic Peninsula, a desolate setting complete with boiling geothermal vents and vicious birds. Soon the hostile environment will show each survivor their true face, and as the polar ice thaws in the unseasonable warmth, the group's secrets, prejudices, and inner demons will also emerge, including revelations from Striker's past that could irrevocably shatter her world. With her signature lyricism and humor, Quan Barry offers neither comfort nor closure as she questions the limits of the human bonds that connect us to one another, affirming there are no such things as haunted places, only haunted people. Gripping, lucid, and imaginative, The Unveiling is an astonishing ghost story about the masks we wear andthe truths we hide even from ourselves"-- Provided by publisher.
Index Term-Genre/Form Fiction
Index Term-Genre/Form Horror fiction
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels
Index Term-Genre/Form Psychological fiction

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