**'A strange and joyous marvel.' Richard Flanagan** A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, Charlotteβwho promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman named Karl hunts for tuna in partnership w
Foamers
β Scribed by Justin Kassab
- Publisher
- Akashic Books;Kaylie Jones Books
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 548 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Foamers is a worthy addition to the canon of postapocalyptic fiction, and like the best of such books, at its heart it's a frontier novel, brutal and exciting, celebrating individualism and self-determination. It's also a hell of a lot of fun."
--Tim McLoughlin, author of Heart of the Old Country
"When a screwed-up flu vaccine mutates much of humanity into mindless beasts, 'Trust your intelligence' becomes the leitmotif of a group of survivors. Fast-moving, violent, and vividly imagined, Foamers creates a dangerous world made disquietingly believable."
--David Poyer, author of Stepfather Bank and The Cruiser
"It's as if The Stand had a head-on bus collision with Night of the Living Dead. I want to look away, but I can't stop reading."
--John Koloski, author of Bloodblind , book #1 of the Empyres trilogy
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