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Parasites Like Us
Parasites Like Us: A Novel | Adam Johnson
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The debut novel by the author of The Orphan Master's Son (winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize) and the story collection Fortune Smiles (winner of the 2015 National Book Award) Hailed as "remarkable" by the New Yorker, Emporium earned Adam Johnson comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and T.C. Boyle. In his acclaimed first novel, Parasites Like Us, Johnson takes us on an enthralling journey through memory, time, and the cost of mankind's quest for its own past. Anthropologist Hank Hannah has just illegally exhumed an ancient American burial site and winds up in jail. But the law will soon be the least of his worries. For, buried beside the bones, a timeless menace awaits that will set the modern world back twelve thousand years and send Hannah on a quest to save that which is dearest to him. A brilliantly evocative apocalyptic adventure told with Adam Johnson's distinctive dark humor, Parasites Like Us is a thrilling tale of mankind on the brink of extinction.
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MidnightBookGirl
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Watching Parasite with the Hubs! #TeamSlaughter #scarathalon @Clwojick

MeatPiie I loved that movie: it was great!! :) 5y
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Brooke_H
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I'm not going to talk about the plot of this at all. It's best if you go in knowing nothing. I never read the cover copy on any book, and I'm glad I didn't read this one because it definitely gives huge spoilers that happen 3/4 of the way through.

This book is bizarre, funny, and dark as hell. Johnson is one of my fave writers, but I think I've read his entire catalogue now! *sob* I hope he writes more soon.

Triggers for animal cruelty.

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Smrloomis
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Just finally started this and it's fantastic so far. Thanks @ReadosaurusText for helping me to bump it up my TBR!

ReadosaurusText Oh, yay! So glad you did. I'll be keen to hear what you think. 7y
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Christine89
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"Cold and mud-slick, it was like making contact with your greatest fear: that humans could live, love, and die without a trace, vanishing as if they had just slipped the earth's mind."

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