{"product_id":"9780062669612","title":"The Book of M : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Book of M\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Peng Shepherd\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad Thor's Summer 2018 Fiction Pick for THE TODAY SHOW!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Eerie, dark, and compelling, [\u003cem\u003eThe Book of M\u003c\/em\u003e] will not disappoint lovers of \u003cem\u003eThe Passage \u003c\/em\u003e(2010) and \u003cem\u003eStation Eleven \u003c\/em\u003e(2014)\u003cem\u003e.\" --Booklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a dangerous near future world, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of M\u003c\/em\u003e tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears—an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOry and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max’s shadow disappears too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnowing that the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to Ory, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memory disappears completely, he follows her trail across a perilous, unrecognizable world, braving the threat of roaming bandits, the call to a new war being waged on the ruins of the capital, and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs they journey, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a new force growing in the south that may hold the cure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike \u003cem\u003eThe Passage\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/em\u003e, this haunting, thought-provoking, and beautiful novel explores fundamental questions of memory, connection, and what it means to be human in a world turned upside down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“This is an apocalyptic thriller with heart. . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Book of M \u003c\/em\u003eis devastating and inventive as Shepherd examines the value of memory, packing in imaginative twists as she goes.”\u003cbr\u003e\"Eerily magical . . . At the heart of the novel is a timeless question about the meaning of memory.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"I love a good dystopian page-turner, and Peng Shepherd’s debut novel is the real deal. . . . Shepherd mixes in elements of multiple genres, like post-apocalyptic thriller and fantasy. But at its core, it’s a meditation on memories and personhood, as Shepherd asks which one defines the other.\"\u003cbr\u003e“It is an incredible concept, and she is a brilliant, brilliant new fiction writer. This is someone who you’re eventually going to have on this couch—she’s that good.”\u003cbr\u003e“I was both disturbed and inspired by Max’s and Ory’s journey through apocalypses large and small. Peng Shepherd has written a prescient, dark fable for the now and for the soon-to-be. \u003cem\u003eThe Book of M\u003c\/em\u003e is our beautiful nightmare shadow.”\u003cbr\u003e“Sheperd’s debut is graceful and riveting, slowly peeling back layers of an intricately constructed and unsettling alternate future.”\u003cbr\u003e“Eerie, dark, and compelling, this will not disappoint lovers of \u003cem\u003eThe Passage \u003c\/em\u003e(2010) and \u003cem\u003eStation Eleven \u003c\/em\u003e(2014)\u003cem\u003e.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brilliant debut . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Book of M \u003c\/em\u003eis right up there with \u003cem\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/em\u003e: achingly beautiful literary novels about a changed world.”\u003cbr\u003e“A beautiful and haunting story about the power of memory and the necessity of human connection, this book is a post-apocalyptic\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003emasterpiece and the one dystopian novel you really need to read this year.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Book of M\u003c\/em\u003e is exciting, imaginative, unique, and beautiful. Shepherd proves herself not just a writer to watch, but a writer to treasure.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062669612\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41118109008078,"sku":"9780062669612","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062669612.jpg?v=1649909582","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062669612","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}