{"product_id":"wake-up-and-open-your-eyes-9781683693956","title":"Wake Up and Open Your Eyes","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Clay McLeod Chapman is one of my favorite horror storytellers working today.\"--Jordan Peele\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Surreal, hypnotic, unrelenting, profoundly claustrophobic, and an absolutely scathing sendup of the pitfalls of American divisiveness.\"--Keith Rosson, author of \u003ci\u003eFever House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e's \"master of horror\" Clay McLeod Chapman, a relentless social horror novel about a family on the run from a demonic possession epidemic that spreads through media.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNoah Fairchild has been losing his formerly polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the \"Great Reawakening\" is here, he assumes it's related to one of the many conspiracy theories she believes in. But when his own phone calls go unanswered, Noah makes the long drive from his home in Brooklyn to Richmond, Virginia. There, he discovers his childhood home in shambles, a fridge full of spoiled food, and his parents locked in a terrifying trancelike state in front of the TV. Panicked, Noah attempts to snap them out of it and get them medical help. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen Noah's mother brutally attacks him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Noah isn't the only person to be attacked by a loved one. Families across the country are tearing each other apart--literally--as people succumb to a form of possession that gets worse the more time they spend glued to cable news or falling down internet rabbit holes. In Noah's Richmond-based family, only he and his young nephew Marcus are unaffected. Together, they must race back to the safe haven of Brooklyn--but can they make it before they fall prey to the violent hordes? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis ambitious, searing novel from one of horror's modern masters holds a mirror to our divided nation, and will shake readers to the core.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Quirk Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781683693956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2024 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/21\/2024\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Clay McLeod Chapman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44792615239861,"sku":"9781683693956","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ff4439cd-5ada-420b-89ef-216a5e3437d3.jpg?v=1731426813","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/wake-up-and-open-your-eyes-9781683693956","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}