String Follow
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Simon Jacobs's String Follow is a darkly comic suburban Gothic about a malevolent force that targets a group of Ohio misfits, harnessing their angst for its sinister designs.
Something strange is happening to the teens in Adena, Ohio.
A mysterious force is seeking inroads: vulnerabilities to exploit, friendships to hijack, untapped rage to harness toward its own ends. Who will serve it best? Claire is abrasive and aimless, embarrassed by her privileged upbringing. Weak-willed David is consumed by a recent breakup and harbors fantasies of violent, cultish orgies. Greg silently wages war against the voices in his head, while his sister Beth goes quietly mad, surrounded by lights. And at the center is the empathetic, naïve, sensitive Sarah. The force wants her most of all. The question is whether she will be the key to its success or to its destruction.
Eerie, hypnotic, and shot through with dark comedy, String Follow is a razor-sharp suburban Gothic that cuts deep, exposing the sweating, bleeding truth of how kids become adults in twenty-first-century America. In spellbinding, incisive prose, Simon Jacobs blends the startlingly original and the uncannily familiar, revealing the dark chaos that lurks under the surface of Midwestern suburbia.
A Macmillan Audio production from MCD x FSG Originals.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
We don’t quite know what kind of sinister entity is seeping into the lives of this novel’s troubled characters…and that’s what makes it so unsettling. Author Simon Jacobs introduces us to a large ensemble of loosely connected teenagers, including Beth—who lives in terror of her mentally unstable brother’s abuse—and David, whose recent breakup has him obsessed with hateful incel videos. As we learn about each character’s hopes, desires, and sources of torment, we feel a mounting sense of dread. What is the dark, unnamed force that’s quietly watching, influencing the teens’ actions in order to sow heartbreak, violence, and chaos? Jacobs makes an incredibly chilling choice by making the malevolent being narrate the story. Having an evil force talking directly into your ear is very creepy, and narrators Amanda Dolan and James Patrick Cronin expertly portray the entity’s eerie aloofness. String Follow is an ingeniously fresh, utterly disturbing take on horror.