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The fervor : a novel / Alma Katsu.

Katsu, Alma, (author.).

Summary:
"From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger and The Deep comes a new psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II. 1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko's husband's enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior, Meiko and Aiko were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the Midwest. It didn't matter that Aiko was American-born: They were Japanese, and therefore considered a threat by the American government. Mother and daughter attempt to hold on to elements of their old life in the camp when a mysterious disease begins to spread among those interned. What starts as a minor cold quickly becomes spontaneous fits of violence and aggression, even death. And when a disconcerting team of doctors arrive, nearly more threatening than the illness itself, Meiko and her daughter team up with a newspaper reporter and widowed missionary to investigate, and it becomes clear to them that something more sinister is afoot, a demon from the stories of Meiko's childhood, hell-bent on infiltrating their already strange world. Inspired by the Japanese yokai and the jorogumo spider demon, The Fervor explores the horrors of the supernatural beyond just the threat of the occult. With a keen and prescient eye, Katsu crafts a terrifying story about the danger of demonization, a mysterious contagion, and the search to stop its spread before it's too late. A sharp account of too-recent history, it's a deep excavation of how we decide who gets to be human when being human matters most."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593328330
  • ISBN: 0593328337
  • Physical Description: 309 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2022]
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 > Japanese Americans > Fiction.
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Horror fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 23 of 24 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 24 total copies.
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Abington Community Library FICTION KATSU (Text) 50687011777391 Adult Fiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library FICTION KATSU (Text) 50686016164555 Adult Fiction Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library H KAT (Text) 37268003132230 AHMFL Horror Available -
Altoona Area Public Library F KAT (Text) 33240004955194 Adult Fiction Available -
Carbondale Public Library FICTION KATSU (Text) 50688010814888 Adult Fiction Available -
Degenstein Community Library FIC KATSU (Text) 35031301218820 Adult Fiction Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults KAT Fiction (Text) 34001001413150 Adult Area Available -
DuBois Public Library FIC KATSU (Text)
Memorial: In Memory of Doris Larson
61000100079140 Adult Fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library FIC KATSU ALMA (Text) 35740635834401 Fiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library Fiction Katsu (Text) 39427103659231 Fiction Room: Adult Fiction Available -


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