Megan Abbott
May 12, 2015
Little, Brown and Company
The panic
unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community
in a seemingly idyllic suburban community.
The Nash family is
close-knit. Tom is a popular teacher, father of two teens: Eli, a hockey star
and girl magnet, and his sister Deenie, a diligent student. Their seeming
stability, however, is thrown into chaos when Deenie’s best friend is struck by
a terrifying, unexplained seizure in class. Rumors of a hazardous outbreak
spread through the family, school and community.As hysteria
and contagion swell, a series of tightly held secrets emerges, threatening to
unravel friendships, families and the town’s fragile idea of security.A chilling
story about guilt, family secrets and the lethal power of desire, The Fever
affirms Megan Abbot’s reputation as “one of the most exciting and original
voices of her generation” (Laura Lippman).
Megan Abbott is the Edgar®-winning author of the novels Queenpin, The Song Is You, Die a Little, Bury Me Deep, The End of Everything, Dare Me, and her
latest, The Fever,
which was chosen as one of the Best Books of the Summer by the New York
Times, People Magazine and Entertainment Weekly and
one of the Best Books of the Year by Amazon, National Public Radio, the Boston
Globe and the Los Angeles Times.
Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, the
Guardian, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Believer and
the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Born in the Detroit area, she graduated from the University of Michigan
and received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York
University. She has taught at NYU, the State University of New York and the New
School University. In 2013-14, she served as the John Grisham Writer in
Residence at Ole Miss.
She is also the author of a nonfiction book, The Street Was Mine: White
Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, and the editor of A Hell of a
Woman, an anthology of female crime fiction. She has been nominated
for many awards, including three Edgar® Awards, Hammett Prize, the Shirley
Jackson Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Folio Prize.
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