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Published 2014 by Farrar, Straus, Giroux (FSG)

Page Numbers: 195

ISBN: 978-0-374-10409-2

A team of scientists are sent into a quarantined zone called Area X. With nature reclaiming it, strange things keep happening to the landscapes and to the animals that live there.

There is intense dread on every page of this book. It relies on unsettling the reader. The book is a fast-paced page-turner that makes it easy to finish in one setting. The frame is a mysterious wilderness being observed by an unreliable narrator’s field notes.

The novel focuses on the slow unraveling of the four scientists as they experience isolation, transformations, and the mistrust of each other.